368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

Magic’s all around if you take the time to pay attention.

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.

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 going along with it ever since.

I’m really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like “It’s The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs.” And I can’t do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn’t write them.

What was it Dylan said? You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.

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.

A body of work may be reviled – mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings – and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

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, we’ve got to try and stop ’em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we’re gone, that light’s going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

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. It’s a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it’s true, but then so’s everything.