different stars... different destinies...

"So if I learned to read the stars, I'd maybe discover my future up there. It would solve a lot of problems..."
"And spoil a lot of mysteries."
"Better not to know?"
"Better to find out when the time is right. Everything to its Hour..."
"You're right of course..."

"Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and Now - in this bright, laughing moment - and let the Hours to come take care of themselves..."

"Do you think they get the joke?"
"I think today the whole world gets the joke..."
"Good answer."

-Candy Quackenbush and Malingo in "Abarat" by Clive Barker