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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

There was too much going on here
too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.

I don't think the world works on merit.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

It was all cheese and applause.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it?

Everybody's got a true home - maybe not where they're living, but
where their heart lives.

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

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

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Everything, everybody wanted to lay claim to a piece of your soul. And if they couldn't have it, they made you pay for it in guilt.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.