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• Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

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  Cinnamon, Asks, Delicious

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.199, Random House

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• The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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  Tales, Familiarity, Truest

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

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  Character, Artist, Space

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

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  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

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  Crush, Letting Go, Butterfly

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• You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

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  Girl, Running, Pain

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• You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

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  Gears, Clock

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• People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

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  Writing, People, Evil

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.37, Random House

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• It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

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  Midst, Difficult, Situation

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• People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

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  People, Giving, Attention

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• I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

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  Identity, Opponents, Made

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• I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

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  Garden, Thinking, Ice

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• I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

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  Thinking, Cake, Analogies

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• She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

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  Eye, Circus, Way

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 09, 2015

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• 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.

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  Girl, Opportunity, Knights

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.92, Random House

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• I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

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  Father, Thinking, Ghost

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.326, Random House

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• He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

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  Moving, Fall, Air

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.134, Random House

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• And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

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  Book, Stories, Pieces

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• Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

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  Scent, Underestimated

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• We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

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  Two, People, Doe

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• I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

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  Liberty, Lied, Share

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• Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

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  Soul, Circus, Ache

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

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• We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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  Effort, Wish, Energy

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.22, Random House

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• This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.

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  Book, Teaching, Writing

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