I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.