368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

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 and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.