Erin Morgenstern Quotes

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.