Circus of Wonders Quotes

“This is what the girls felt, she thinks, those seized by pedlars in the lanes. Pinned down like moths, like squids on rocks. This is the fight women have always fought, their soft bodies turned to battlegrounds, slim bones crushed beneath the solid weight of men.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“He wonders if everyone else feels as immortal as he does. He has too many thoughts, too many ideas, too many ambitions merely to die.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“All history is fiction.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“... a wolf cannot stop being a wolf, instinct cannot be suppressed ...”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Circus has always made him believe that anything is possible. But he knows, too, that it is illusion, that life does not share its boldness, its neat stories.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Mejor volar y caer que permanecer encerrado.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Todo era un circo. El circo era la vida, el deseo magnificados.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Jasper has turned her life into his own, his pen distorting her truth. She feels like a pulled flower, its roots severed.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“He aches to think she has lived before him, that she exists apart from him.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“He sinks back. Easier not to strive, to feel only the ratchet of tiny, dry breaths. He reaches out his hand, grips only air.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“A momentum builds in him, an unsettling thought that he could not be without her, that his life meant nothing before she arrived in it. He shuts his eyes to close it off; he hates her for how cleanly she has undone him.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Perhaps that, too, is why they love her. She flies like Icarus, and they are waiting for her to fall.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“She steadies herself on the wagon, remembers how she used to stand on the furthest tip of the cliffs and watch the sea sucking the rocks below her. Charlie would plead with her to step back, not to be so foolish. She kicked earth over the edge and watched it tumble down, until the urge to fall was almost greater than the urge to stand still.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“The truth of his story had been snipped about, suppressed, until he began to wonder if he had imagined the entire incident, and his whole life might never cast a single ripple.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“..la vita non è altrettanto cristallina, non è fatta di storie chiare e semplici.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Il futuro è una pagina bianca su cui puoi scrivere qualsiasi cosa.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Siamo fatti della stessa sostanza
di cui sono fatti i sogni,
e la nostra breve vita
è racchiusa nello spazio
e nel tempo d'un sogno.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“L'orizzonte che conosceva così bene qui è diverso. È più ampio, in un certo senso, intervallato da colline sconosciute, ed è tutto nuovo.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“Una vita passata a essere dolorosamente in vista, eppure invisibile.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders