You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.
People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.
The circus arrives without warning.
I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.
Is magic not enough to live for?
I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
That man has no shadow.
And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.
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.
Sometimes I write what I can’t paint, and I paint what I can’t write. I use a different part of the brain.
Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that’s when I found my rhythm in writing.
I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn’t just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
And now, I’m a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I’ll wake up from.
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it’s grounded in reality.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.