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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly

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Together, Details, Elements

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Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent.

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Dream, Garden, Ice

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But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

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Dream, Way, Nightmare

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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.

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Fighting, Hair, Wind

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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

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Dream, Forget

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.91, Random House

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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

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Answers, Aging, Celia

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Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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Perfect, Stones, Diamond

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Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

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Thinking, Simple, Two

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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.

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Needs, Done, Care

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...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

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Skins, Thrill, Body

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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?

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Princess, Hero, Dragons

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.404, Random House

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It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

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People, Feelings, World

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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

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Dream, Thinking, Dawn

FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 02, 2014

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Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

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Librarian, Subjects, Intoxicated

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.62, Random House

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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

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Rain, Mushrooms, Umbrella

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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.

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Kitchen, Ingredients, Chef

"Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

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Chaos

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

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Sorry, Pain, Believe

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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

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Reality, Magic, Fans

"The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.

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Community, Stories, May

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Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

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White, Black, Add

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.179, Random House

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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.

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Growing Up, Sheep, Leaving

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.290, Random House

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The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

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Fall, Past, Night

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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

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Black And White, Unique, Night

FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Jan 20, 2016

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Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

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Celia, Seems

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House

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