368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

But this was what happened when you mined the past. You gave up control of the present.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you’re just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher worlds of knowledge which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend. – attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven.

She’s old, is Granny Weather, he says, and cranky, too, but there’s more magic in one of her toenails than most of us will find in a lifetime.

The trouble with advice is that it’s usually something you don’t want to hear.

You must always confront your fears,” Goon said as though she hadn’t spoken. “Then skulking monsters become merely unfamiliar shadows, thrown by a tree bough. Whispering voices are just the wind. The wild flare of panic is merely a burst of emotion, not a terror spell cast by some evil witch.

Maybe there’s something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl.” “What.

I figure all oracular devices are just a way for us to focus on what we already know, but can’t quite grab onto. It works the same as a ritual does in a church: You get enough people focused on something, things happen. The way I see it is, it doesn’t much matter what the device is. It’s just got to be interesting enough so that your attention doesn’t stray. Fellow reading the fortune, fellow having it read – same difference. They’ve both got to be paying attention. “What.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn’t fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.