You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

The Night Circus won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2012. Harvill Secker the UK publiErin Morgensternr for The Night Circus contracted Failbetter Games to create an interactive browser-based puzzle game to accompany the book. In an interview with the School Library Journal Morgenstern describes the short self-contained chapters as recapitulating the myriad tents of the circus and the black and white with a splash of red motif as showing dangerous passion simmering just below the surface.

Erin Morgenstern (born July 8 1978) is an American writer and visual artist best known for writing The Night Circus.