The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning.

Le Cirque des Rêves

Perhaps it is a tribute to the origin of the word “circus,” deriving from the Greek kirkos meaning circle, or ring.

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

The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl.

I was not expecting such a dark beginning... I love it.

“Passing off manipulations as tricks and illusion. Charging admission.”

Capitalism at its finest...

“You would wager your own child?”

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

“You could have fixed the bird,” Celia says.

Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries.

My heart... ><

“I don’t think anyone has actually called me that before,” Marco responds. Isobel laughs again, and she is still laughing when he leans closer and kisses her.

My heart can't take it; I love them so much it hurts!ㅠ.ㅠ

To passersby on the darkened London street, they look like nothing out of the ordinary, only young lovers kissing in the rain.

“And for Christ’s sake, stop crying,” her father calls after her.

Oh, he makes me so ANGRY!!!