Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.