"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not." -The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

"A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope." -Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

""There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth saving, in any case. There are no longer tales with beasts and quests and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is the dragon not the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf acting simply as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who would go to such lengths to dress up as a grandmother to toy with its prey."" -The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

"And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as brightly as a shilling on this same boy and girl, or if the stones of Blackfriars knew the tread of their feet and thought to themselves: At last, the wheel comes full circle, they kept their silence." -Clockwork Princess, by Casssandra Clare

"You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime's worth." -Clockwork Princess, by Cassandra Clare