Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shin… - Charles de Lint

There are three kinds of kids: the ones that are the odd birds, the ones that pissed on them, and the ones that watched it happen.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.