1. “Is magic not enough to live for?”
2. “Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers.”
3. “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.”
4. “Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
5. “Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”
6. “Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”
7. “Names are not nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”
8. “I wished for her,” he says.”
9. “But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
10. “We are put under a different kind of scrutiny by being somewhat closer to ordinary.”
11. “You built me dreams.”
12. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue.”
13. “As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.”
14. “It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
15. “Magic is secret and secrets are magic,”
16. “Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.”
17. ″‘It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,’ Tsukiko says. ‘It is too familiar. Too comfortable.‘”
18. “The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
19. “A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery are, in fact, the same person. It is surprising, but I do not mind a good surprise.”
20. “You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.”
21. “People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
22. “A show without an audience is nothing, after all.”
23. “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
24. “We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
25. “Timing is a sensitive thing.”
26. “Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
27. “People see what they want to see. And, in most cases, what they are told to see.”
28. “I didn’t know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.”
29. “Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.”
30. “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?”
31. “Nothing is impossible.”“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.”
32. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.”
33. “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.”
34. “It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.”
35. “Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.”
36. “I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.”
37. “People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”
38. “You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
39. “Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.”
40. “I am already married,” she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.”
41. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,”
42. “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.”
43. “Time is a peculiar thing. You’ll learn that eventually.”
44. “You smile as though you have a secret.”
45. “And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”
46. “I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
47. “Before you leave, the fortune-teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.”
48. “The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.”
49. “I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.”
50. “They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it is real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.”
51. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
52. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.”
53. “…have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.”
54. “But you built me dreams instead…”
55. “I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element separately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly”
56. “The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers.”
57. “We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
58. “He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”
59. “People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.”
60. “I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”
61. “It is too difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.”
62. “He forgets that he was someone’s dream once.”
63. “It’s as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.”
64. “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”
65. “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones,”
66. “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?”
67. “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.”
68. “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.”
69. “You will be fine,” the fortune-teller says. “There may be decisions to make, and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
70. “So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
71. “Love is fickle and fleeting.”
72. “Because if the girl had not been beautiful and clever, she would have been easier to resist, and then there would be no story at all.”
73. “I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.”
74. “It’s lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes.”
75. “I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.’ ‘But you built me dreams instead.”
76. “I don;t think there’s anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
77. “And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”
78. “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
79. ″‘Because everything requires energy,’ she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. ‘We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.‘”
80. “Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
81. “We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
82. “Magic is a secret and secrets are magic.”
83. “If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”
84. “It’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as your.”
85. “The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.”
86. “They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.”
87. “Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”
88. “Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness”
89. “The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
90. “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.”
91. “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. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
92. “A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess.”
93. “Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks […] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.”
94. “And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.”
95. “She focuses only on him, pulling everything that he is with her as she breaks herself apart. Holding on to the memory of every touch of his skin against hers, every moment she had spent with him. Carrying him with her.”
