By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. — Charles de Lint Enlarging Copy Share Image
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. — Charles De Lint Copy Share Image
“We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.” — Charles de Lint Knowledge Copy Share Image
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. — Charles de Lint Destination Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“The trouble with magic is that it never really lets go. If you work one magic to undo another, you might end… — Charles de Lint First place Copy Share Image
“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our… — Charles de Lint Biology Copy Share Image
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when… — Charles de Lint Dark Copy Share Image
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its… — Charles de Lint Dark Copy Share Image
Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have… — Charles de Lint Compromise Copy Share Image
“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering… — Charles de Lint Beauty Copy Share Image
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on… — Charles de Lint Burden Copy Share Image
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be… — Charles de Lint Friendship Copy Share Image
“I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on… — Charles de Lint Past present Copy Share Image
She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves. — Charles de Lint Future Copy Share Image
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Funny Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.” — Charles de Lint Fiction Copy Share Image
It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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 Hate Copy Share Image
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them. — Charles de Lint Character Copy Share Image
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.” — Charles de Lint Environment Copy Share Image
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one. — Charles de Lint Friendship Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. — Charles de Lint Fairy Copy Share Image
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