368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

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 see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.