“You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.”
— Erin Morgenstern
“Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.”
“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
“Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
“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.”
“All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.”
“To be rather than to seem.”
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
“Sometimes I write what I can’t paint, and I paint what I can’t write. I use a different part of the brain.”
“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
“Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.”
“They say it’s darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.”
“You told me love was fickle and fleeting.”
“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.”
“Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”
“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
“He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.”
“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
“Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”
“You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.”
“Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.”
“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
“Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.”
“Tarot is just stories on cards.”
“It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.”
“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.”
“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.”
“You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.”
“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
“I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.”
“I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it’s grounded in reality.”
“I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul.”
“I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.”
“Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.”
“Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.”
“The circus arrives without warning.”
“Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”
“I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn’t you want to keep it?”
“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”
“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.”
“Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.”
“I didn’t know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.”
“I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.”
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