"Everything that existed, existed in a captured state. Animate or inanimate, everything wanted to be free. That's what the lights said; that was their secret. Wild lights in the night skies, and domesticated lights, right here on the street, they all told the same tale. It was so plain to see when you knew how to look. Didn't neon and streetlights yearn to be starlight?"

- Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot