Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn

One aspect of the novel that I really love is the abundant journal keeping and writings from many of my favorite characters. They contain their longings, memories, magic and secrets.
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It started with a suicide note.

“The sealed envelope hangs from the second topmost button of her coat, until Prospero arrives.”

and continues

“He copies down sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasing steady lines.”

“He begins each notebook the same way, with a detailed drawing of a tree inscribed with a black ink inside the front cover.”

- Marco (at least that’s what he named himself, and maybe that’s all that matters.)
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“Pages and pages of observations, recounting his experiences, mostly so he will not forget them but also to capture something of the circus on paper, something he can hold on to.”

- Herr Thiessen
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“After the circus departed, he wrote down every detail he could remember about it so it would not fade in his memory.”

- Bailey
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“…takes a closer look at the blueprints and sketches hanging from shelves and tacked to mirrors and paintings and windows. Some are complete rooms, others are bits of exterior architecture or elaborate archways and halls.”

- Chandresh
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” the drafting table by the window is all but hidden in the meticulous ordered chaos of papers and diagrams and blueprints.”

- Mr. Ethan Barris

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“I want a story,” he says.
“A story?”
“I want this story. Your story.”