Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine.
Erin MorgensternSomething about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
Erin MorgensternI am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
Erin MorgensternTag: shakespeare hamlet father ghost
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.
Erin MorgensternTag: prose
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
Erin MorgensternThe boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.
Erin MorgensternWhich tent is your favourite?" he asks.
"The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider.
"Why is that?" Marco asks.
"Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent...
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
Erin MorgensternGood and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
Erin MorgensternAre 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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