Charles de Lint Quotes
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The thing is … nothing’s as easy as we'd like it to be. … And the real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?
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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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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.
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I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.
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They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
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Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
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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...
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
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The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
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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.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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I've always been interested in the outsider.