I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

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.

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.

Is magic not enough to live for?

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

You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.