“I find I am more interested in learning about the woman than the magician. I hope that is acceptable.” “It’s perfect,” Celia says.

Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

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Consider also:

  1. “The actual Devil. In a limo with Jenna Steele, a bag of Mexican weed, and six bullets in him. He was an American, too. The fans and blogs were right about that. He had been an American for a very long time.”
  2. “age-old ingredients of gothic drama and high tragedy: sex, violence, pride, fanaticism, and conspiracy.”
  3. “It’s the learning fuckin’ nothing, Al, that keeps me young.”
  4. “Man has not only dissembled, deceived, made war without cause, given cause to those who dare not or could not defend their rights, and compelled his fellow to believe without evidence or intuition, but he has called the God whom he says delights in goodness and will punish all evil doers, to be a witness and a helper in his evil deeds.”
  5. “The true Christian is a stranger to the sectarian spirit; he is all things to all men, and looks on all men as the children of a common father, who means to save them all. The whole cult has for him only a sense of sweetness and of love: he leaves to God the secrets of justice, and understands only charity.”