I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.
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
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
Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or wha… - Charles De Lint
Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or wha…
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. - Charles De Lint
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. - Charles De Lint
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these … - Charles De Lint
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these …
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a h… - Charles De Lint
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a h…
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow. - Charles De Lint
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back. - Charles De Lint
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I w… - Charles De Lint
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I w…
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