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“Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Lies aren't answers."
"But they sound so much better than the truth.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Love and madness are two stars in the same sky. You cannot build a roof to keep out last year’s rain.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Some people burn so brightly, it's impossible to put the flames out.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“People don’t tell secrets because someone needs to know them. They do it because they need someone to tell.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Hearts are power, and if there’s one thing my kind craves more than the ocean, it’s power.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“And in another life, if I ever had a choice about who to be, maybe I would have been like him.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Having something, even if in the past, is better than nothing at all.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“But how do you force your parents, the people who have loved you, raised you and sheltered you your entire life, to give up on you? ... You turn into the darkness. You show them you are beyond their reach. Beyond saving.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“Get in quick. Get out quicker.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks.
"Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do."
"What way might that be?"
"As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."
" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“To be rather than to seem.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus