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"He was seeking immortality, which is a terrible thing to seek. It is not seeking anything, but rather avoiding the unavoidable."

- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

5 Jan • 83 notes • ∞
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"Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. The tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words… Do not forget that. There are many kinds of magic, after all."

- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

4 Jan • 9 notes • ∞
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"Magic. This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you. Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what’s worst is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten the. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence."

- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

3 Jan • 22 notes • ∞
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"I chose this, Bailey thinks. I want this. I need this. Please. Please let this work. He wishes it, harder than he has ever wished for anything over birthday candles or on shooting stars. Wishing for himself. For the réveurs in their red scarves. For a clockmaker he never met. For Celia and Marco and Poppet and Widget and even for Tsukiko, though she claims she does not care."

- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

2 Jan • 4 notes • ∞
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"Stories have changed… There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maiden in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise, Things keep going on, they overlap and blur… Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?"

- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

1 Jan • 8 notes • ∞
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"I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do."

- Celia Bown (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)

30 Dec • 1,674 notes • ∞
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"The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones."

- Tuskiko (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)

28 Dec • 62 notes • ∞
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"You will be fine. There may be decisions to make, and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that."

- Isobel (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)

27 Dec • 21 notes • ∞
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