There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
Charles de LintI envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.
Charles de LintThere is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
Charles de Lint