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• Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

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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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• 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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• Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

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  Wine, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

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  Dark, Unique, Dust

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• Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

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  Writing, Brain, Different

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• Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.

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  Distance, Moving, Kissing

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• Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.” “It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.

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  Mother, Father, Moving

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• I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

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  Book, Writing, Order

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• I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

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  Writing, Emotional, Vivid Imagination

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

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  Entertainment, Kind, Bigs

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

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  Dancer, Together, Littles

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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• It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

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  Spring, Blessing, Mind

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• I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

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  Home, Night, Light

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

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• The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

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  Believe, Reading, People

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

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• I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

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  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

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  Circus, Entertainment, Venues

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• Tarot is just stories on cards.

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  Tarot, Cards, Stories

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• I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

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  Writing, Paint, Found

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• Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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  Natural Talent, Ability, Questionable

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.18, Random House

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• Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

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  Dancing, Dancer, Asks

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.155, Random House

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