"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… - Charles de Lint

She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.

Thing that people forget is, we all die, right? We all die and no matter what we do, the universe is going to go on, perfectly happy without us.

Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.