368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered.

Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you’re about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of ’em.

The puppet thinks: It’s not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

We’re all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

I’ve always been interested in the outsider.

All she knew was that there was more to the world than what could be perceived with the five senses, and that she couldn’t accept that Mystery as having its source in some power-hungry god whose church’s creeds were based on denial of all secular matters, as though the beauty of this world was not a thing to be cherished for its own sake, but was rather a testing ground for how one would or would not be rewarded in the afterlife.

I’m not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Why is it so easy to spread sadness and so hard to spread happiness?

There’s never an easy route to the things that matter.