Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

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

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

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.

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

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.