Die schönsten Freuden sind immer die, mit denen man nicht rechnet.
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusThe most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusDie Leute sehen was sie wollen. Und in den meisten Fällen sehen sie dass was man ihnen sagt.
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusBut dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusOnly the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusLike stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusGood and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon... is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusI couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusTo be rather than to seem.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusI think looking forward will be better than looking back.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusThe truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusLife takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusPeople don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.
Erin Morgenstern in Der NachtzirkusSie schuf nicht eine, sondern viele Geschichten. Geschichten innerhalb von Geschichten. Rätsel und falsche Wendungen und unwahre Enden, in Stein und Wachs und in Rauch.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerNot all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerEveryone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerStrange, isn't it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It's nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerSei tapfer. Sei kühn. Sei laut. Ändere dich niemals für irgendjemand anderen als für dich selbst.
Be brave. Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself.
LebensweisheitenErin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerFor those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerIt is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerIt doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerBut the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerThere is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerReading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerWir sind alle Sternenstaub und Geschichten.
We are all stardust and stories.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerThis is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose Meer"How are you feeling?" Zachary asks. "Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way."
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerA boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerAm untersten Treppenabsatz steht auf einem Sims eine Lampe, so eine mit Griff, in der einmal ein Geist gewohnt haben könnte, die aber im Augenblick nur brennendes Öl enthält.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose MeerIt is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths.
Erin Morgenstern in Das sternenlose Meer