Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

When you're a kid, you get all these rules and regulations coming down on your head. You've got a need to be recognized. But as time goes by, this stuff, if it remains, can kill you. The attitude alone can't sustain anyone forever.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

The time I felt most beautiful was probably when I was in college, and I was starting to accept who I was as a person. I wasn't hiding who I was anymore, and I was like, 'You know what? I'm growing up; I don't have to follow the rules anymore.'

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

There was definitely a time where I kind of did rebel a little bit, but it was not until I had graduated college.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.