"And so you are not going to fail again.

You are not going away somewhere, you don't know where, to do something you don't know what.

You are going to stay right here, and just BE something.

Then, when the time comes, you will do whatever is yours to do as naturally and as inevitably as the birds sing, as the blossoms come in the spring, or as the river finds its way to the sea." And more than ever Brian Kent felt in the presence of Auntie Sue as a little boy to whom the world had grown suddenly very big and very wonderful.
But, after a while, he shook his head, smiling wistfully.

"No, no, Auntie Sue, that sounds all true and right enough, but it can't be.