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

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.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

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

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.