368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

As the new work fills my notebooks, I’ve come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

If all the darkness each of us carries within us, all our angers and unhappiness and bad moments were pulled out of us and given shape, we would all create monsters.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they’re not treating them as possessions or toys.

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 stories, we’d just fade away.

What Jilly liked best about him was his theory of consensual reality, the idea that things exist because we agree that they exist.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they’re the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

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

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one’s intentions, makes one the enemy.