The Night Circus

Magic is secret and secrets are magic

Wine is bottled poetry

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A label assigned to identify you either by this institution or your departed parents is neither of interest nor value to me

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

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

“Secrets have power,” Widget begins. “And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”

The circus arrives without warning.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

—OSCAR WILDE, 1888