"The trouble with magic is that there's too……" — Charles de Lint
"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 into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own."
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Charles de Lint
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189 Quotes by Charles de Lint
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The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a…
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What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know…
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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