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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time.

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

Love is fickle and fleeting,

He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

I believe you have my umbrella he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Magic is a secret and secrets are magic

A show without an audience is nothing, after all.

Is magic not enough to live for?

Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers.

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

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel ... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

I choose to do my work to the best of my own abilities, and leave others to their own.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

We are too mercurial for our own good.

I think she's a witch," Marco says. "And I mean that in the most complimentary manner.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

He does hesitate, just for a moment, but he knows he will hate himself later if he doesn't at least try, no matter what might happen after.

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.

This is a typical Tsukiko response, one that does not truly answer the question. Isobel does not pry.

It would be so simple to let go.
It would be so much easier to let go.
So much less painful.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.

It is too difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

Often diners remark that they are too pretty, too impressive to eat, but they always find a way to manage.

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

The future is never set in stone.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Dreams have a way of turning into nightmares.

Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

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

Have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

We are fish in a bowl, dear.

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

the hint of triumph out of her voice. It

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

Mme. Padva greets them with the practiced disinterest she reserves for pretty young things

There are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur.

A soft breeze plays with her hair, bringing with it the mingling scent of dusty tomes and damp, rich ink.

Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future," the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.

Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness

Nothing is impossible.

Fearsome Beasts and Strange Creatures Wonders in Paper and Mist

Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

But you built me dreams instead.

Nothing's impossible, Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

... there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all ...

Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark." The

The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.