Circus Mirandus

You never need an invitation to go home.

Just because a magic is small doesn't mean it is unimportant. Even the smallest magics can grow." -The Lightbender

Because when you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it...Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

[I]t was a ridiculous, amazing thing to do, and once in a while, it's good to be ridiculous and amazing.

I won't tell you that you shouldn't have done it. Because it was a ridiculous, amazing thing to do, and once in a while, it's good to be ridiculous and amazing." -Grandpa Ephraim

The Lightbender: Micah, what do you think magic is? Micah: I guess it's what's inside of people like you. The parts of you that are too big to keep just to yourself.

Even when your whole world was off balance, you still woke up in the morning to find there were a hundred perfectly ordinary things to do.

Telling another person that they have changed you for the better is no small matter, and Ephraim knew it.

Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at magic" -Grandpa Ephraim

[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.

It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.

The war had ended all at once and very calmly. It was as if, between one moment and the next, all the mothers of all the soldiers in the world had checked their clocks and realized that their children had been out playing for too long. The mothers set aside their laundry or their piecrusts or their welding torches, and they stepped out their front doors. "Davey!" they called. "Klaus! Pierre! It's time to wash up for supper." The soldiers shook hands with one another and wished one another well. Then they raced back to their mothers, or to their wives and sons.

Grandpa Ephraim was always saying things that sounded so important Micah wanted to wrap them up in boxes and keep them forever.

Selfish children these days,” she muttered around a beakful of cottony stuffing. “Won’t even share a few delicious tidbits with the messenger. I blame television.” Micah

Because when you try to hard to hold on to something, you break it." -Grandpa Ephraim

You never need a ticket to go home.

all the mothers of all the soldiers in the world had checked their clocks and realized that their children had been out playing for too long.