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

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

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.

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