“Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.” “It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.”

American multimedia artist and novelist

Erin Morgenstern is an American multimedia artist and novelist, known for her fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, The Night Circus, appeared in 2011 and brought her wide attention. The Night Circus was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel. Morgenstern later published The Starless Sea in 2019. She also received an Alex Award in 2012.