“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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