The Night Circus Quotes

“People see what they want to see. And, in most cases, what they are told to see.”

″‘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.‘”

“People are naïve about such things...and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.”

″‘It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,’ Tsukiko says. ‘It is too familiar. Too comfortable.‘”

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

“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.”

“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 not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?”

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”