“So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.”

“Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.”

“I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.”

“Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.”

“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.”

“So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.”

“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”

“They say love and hate are closely tied, that they can turn at a moment’s notice.”

“Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What happens, then, when you do everything you are not meant to do? Break down each and every barrier? Find out how good you are by how evil you can be?”

“Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.”

“The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless. I wanted to fly.”