Erin Morgenstern Circus Quotations

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

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.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

The circus arrives without warning.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

But you built me dreams instead.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

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

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.