There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
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
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…
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…
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 …
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. - Charles De Lint
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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.
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