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

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.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.

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.

There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .

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