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Us Quotes by Charles de Lint
- We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
- But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the…
- It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
- It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
- 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.
- Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
- 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,…
- 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…
- We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time.…
- 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…
- That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
- But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt,…
- The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from…
- We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea…
- Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It…
- Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things…
- There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
- What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a…
- Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to…
- I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories.…
- I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong