That man has no shadow.

To be rather than to seem.

I wished for her,” he says.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

But you built me dreams instead.

Is magic not enough to live for?

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

The circus arrives without warning.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

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

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

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

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

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

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

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

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

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

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

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

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

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

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.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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

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

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

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

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

Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

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