I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.
Erin MorgensternWhy havenโt you asked me how I do my tricks?โ Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. โBecause I do not wish to know,โ he says. โI prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
Erin MorgensternIt's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.
Erin MorgensternNatural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Erin MorgensternIt's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
Erin MorgensternI worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. Iโve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they donโt and Iโm not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.
Erin Morgenstern