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181 " You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real? "
― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus
182 " ...it tastes older than stories. It tastes like myth. "
― Erin Morgenstern , The Starless Sea
183 " There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them. 'I would like to look at you' seems like such an awkward request. "
184 " A book is made of paper but a story is a tree. "
185 " A girl Lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way. This girl in the woods is not lost. She is exploring. "
186 " I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space. "
187 " Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks. "
188 " Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem. "
189 " These doors will sing. Silent siren songs for those who seek what lies behind them. For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them. "
190 " Timing is a sensitive thing. "
191 " I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will.When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? "
192 " Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? "
193 " It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths. "
194 " Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game. "
195 " This is a rabbit hole. Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you've gone down the rabbit hole?"Zachary nods and Mirabel leans forward. Her eyes are ringed with gold."Be a rabbit," she whispers. "
196 " They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before. "
197 " 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? "
198 " The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. "
199 " I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. "
200 " ...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. "