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

Book:Pantomime

Source: Pantomime

“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?”

Philosophy Evil Good

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay

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

Independence Decisions

Book:Pantomime

Source: Pantomime

“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.”

Regret Ghosts Haunting Seance

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay

“The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.”

Outsiders Circus Pantomime

Book:Pantomime

Source: Pantomime

“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.”

Magic Circus Aerialist

Book:Pantomime

Source: Pantomime

“Whenever I asked her to tell me what happened up there, Naomi would say no one who has been to space could ever describe it to someone who hasn’t.”

Space Astronauts

Book:Goldilocks

Source: Goldilocks

“The crew of the Atalanta were only five women out of all of humanity, but they could still found a whole new place for humans to flourish. Sometimes you only need one tiny proportion of the population to enact change”

Change Feminism Future Astronauts

Book:Goldilocks

Source: Goldilocks

“A pregnancy that ended before it could truly begin. A missed period that turned into an ellipsis of a promise, then an interrupted dash.”

Miscarriage Pregnancy Loss

Book:Goldilocks

Source: Goldilocks

“A magician creates magic and mesmerizes the audience. But it is a pantomime, and the audience knows that it’s a ruse. It’s in the name: a “magic trick”. They play along when the magician tugs his sleeves to show there is nothing hidden within them, or that the top hat is empty of a rabbit, or eggs, or flowers. Beneath the façade there is only sleight of hand, wires and contraptions, misdirection at a key moment. “But what the audience does not realize is that it’s not always trickery. Or at least, not quite.”

Pantomime Magicians Magic Trick

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay

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

Mistakes Ghosts Haunting

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay