“Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”

“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

“That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.”

“Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.”

“Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.”

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”

“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”