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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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.
— Charles De Lint
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
— Charles De Lint
There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get
— Charles De Lint
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT
— Graham Joyce
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
— Charles De Lint
All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
— Charles De Lint
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
— Charles De Lint
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
— Charles De Lint
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
— Charles De Lint
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
— Charles De Lint
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
— Charles De Lint
Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
— Charles De Lint
Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
— Charles De Lint
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
— Charles De Lint
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
— Charles De Lint
I don't think the world works on merit.
— Charles De Lint
If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
— Charles De Lint
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
— Charles De Lint
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
— Charles De Lint
There was too much going on here too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. — Charles De Lint
Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
— Charles De Lint
The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
The best artists know what to leave out.
— Charles De Lint
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
— Charles De Lint
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
— Charles De Lint
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
— Charles De Lint
Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
— Charles De Lint
I don't know what's waiting for us when we diesomething better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet. — Charles De Lint
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
— Charles De Lint
living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.
— Charles De Lint
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
— Charles De Lint
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
— Charles De Lint
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
— Charles De Lint
There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
— Charles De Lint
T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
— Charles De Lint
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
— Charles De Lint
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
— Charles De Lint
It was all cheese and applause.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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?
— Charles De Lint
Everybody's got a true home - maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives. — Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
— Charles De Lint
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
— Charles De Lint
There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
— Charles De Lint
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
— Charles De Lint
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
— Charles De Lint
What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
— Charles De Lint
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
— Charles De Lint
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
I've always been interested in the outsider.
— Charles De Lint
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
— Charles De Lint
There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.
— Charles De Lint
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
— Charles De Lint
Under the skin, intense fires burn.
— Charles De Lint
Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered.
— Charles De Lint
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
— Charles De Lint
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
— Charles De Lint
You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.
— Charles De Lint
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
— Charles De Lint
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
— Charles De Lint
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.
— Charles De Lint
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
— Charles De Lint
