There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
Charles de LintDon't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita
Charles de LintWhat I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
Charles de LintAs far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de LintI love this world ... That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was in when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.
Charles de Lint