Not 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 The Starless SeaEveryone 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 The Starless SeaStrange, 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 The Starless SeaBe brave. Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself.
Wise SayingsErin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaFor 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 The Starless SeaIt 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 The Starless SeaIt doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaBut the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaThere is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaReading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaWe are all stardust and stories.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaThis is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless Sea"How are you feeling?" Zachary asks. "Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way."
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaA boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.
Erin Morgenstern in The Starless SeaIt 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 The Starless Sea