A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience.

— Laura Lam

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

— Laura Lam

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

— Laura Lam

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

— Laura Lam

I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?

— Laura Lam

Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.

— Laura Lam

Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.

— Laura Lam

Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.

— Laura Lam

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.

— Laura Lam

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.

— Laura Lam