The best Quotes from The Starless Sea

The best Quotes from The Starless Sea

The Starless Sea is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by Erin Morgenstern. It is her second book, following the best-selling The Night Circus, which was published in 2011.

Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.

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Everyone 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.

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Strange, 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.

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Be brave. Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself.

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For 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.

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It 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.

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It doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.

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But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.

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There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.

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Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.

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We are all stardust and stories.

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This is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.

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"How are you feeling?" Zachary asks. "Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way."

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A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.

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It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths.

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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

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Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon... is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

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To be rather than to seem.

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I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

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People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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The king is a man, and a man can fail. But a myth is indestructible.

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