the night circus; the circus arrives without warning. no announcements precede it. it is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
“There’s m a g i c in that. It’s in the l i s t e n e r , and for each and every ear it will be d i f f e r e n t , and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.” — The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Books Read In 2017 → The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
the fortune-teller picks up the deck and shuffles, shifting the cards from one hand to the other. they fold over and under each other in waves. then she spreads them across the table in one fluid motion, forming an arc of identical black-and-white patterned card backs.