There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. - Charles de Lint

And just because she and her uncle were loaded, that didn’t automatically make them useless as human beings.

The moon likes secrets,” Meran said. “And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.