Erin Morgenstern Quotes

I think back to when I was in high school, to 17-year old Daria, who was dating guys and thought that that was the only way of life. I was very confused, and it was definitely manifesting itself in other parts of my life that were unhealthy.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.