“The caretaker was certainly very ancient, a tight and desiccated thing from which all softness and moisture had long since been extracted.”
― The Screaming Staircase
― The Screaming Staircase
“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.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Follow your dreams, Bailey,” she says. “Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.” Bailey”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“If I make the lashes dark, And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity’s displayed; I’m looking for the face I had Before the world was made. —W. B. Yeats”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“When he returned, he sat beside me but did not touch me, spoke to me kindly but revealed nothing. He was a man of secrets who did not see me. I needed no talisman here to achieve invisibility.”
― The Lost Queen
― The Lost Queen
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