The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.
You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.
Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner,” Tsukiko says. “You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. 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.
They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.
I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.
Because everything requires energy,′ she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. ‘We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.
They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.
There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.” -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896.
I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.
I know, interference is one of the very few things that is apparently against the rules. I do not intend to interfere, I intend to learn his systems so I can stop having to constantly manage so much of the circus.