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Out Quotes by Charles de Lint
- There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
- The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn…
- The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
- I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
- 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…
- You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
- Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers,…
- I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily…
- It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,…
- 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…
- I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write…
- The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details…
- There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very…
- 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…
- The best artists know what to leave out.
- 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…
- I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own…
- There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
- You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you…
- There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
- Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living…
- "... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large…
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