I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
This is not magic. This is the way the world is only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
Only the ship is made of books its sails thousands of overlapping pages and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.