“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.”
“what if the person you're meant to be with lives in another time?”
“He knew what she knew – that the world they lived in most days was an illusion of safety, that the real world, without the smoke and mirrors of self-deception, was treacherous, dangerous, and deadly. - An Inquisition of Angels”
“You look very handsome, Papa," I say.The twinkle is back in his eyes. "Smoke and mirrors," he says with a wink. "Smoke and mirrors.”
“It's all done by smoke and mirrors ...”
“All I am is smoke and mirrors ...”