"Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We hav… - Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Every big city like this is really two worlds. You could say it’s divided up between the haves and the have-nots, but it’s not that simple. It’s more like some people are citizens of the day and others of the night. Someone like me belongs to the night. Not because I’m bad, but because I’m invisible. People don’t know I exist.

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.