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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

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So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

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Girl, Laughter, Eye

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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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Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

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Father, Names, Different

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.42, Random House

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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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...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

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Supposed To Be

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.208, Random House

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Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

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Dark, Wish, Matter

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.187, Random House

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It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

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Notebook, Moving, Years

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

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Color, Rainbow, Majority

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He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

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Mother, Adventure, Doe

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"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

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Air, Hands, Scar

"The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

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Reactions, Applause, Genuine

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I wished for her,” he says.

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It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

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Real, Names, Want

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I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

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Long, People, Waiting

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Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

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Love Is, Games, Decision

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

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Differences, Perspective, Opponents

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.

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Goodbye, Kissing, Needs

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.275, Random House

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If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

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Worry, Balance, Trying

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.334, Random House

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That man has no shadow.

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Men, Shadow

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I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

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Believe, Too Much, Umbrella

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.165, Random House

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I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

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Sitting, Feels, Trapped

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

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Secret, Wells, Sharing Secrets

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.177, Random House

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I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

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Years, Two, Letters

Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.353, Random House

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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

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Used, Deals, Marcos

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Born: July 8, 1978
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