368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can’t take the trash out a the woman.

She should have gotten a dog instead of having a kid. Dogs are easy to train and they like being led around on a leash.

I knew it wasn’t simply escape that lay on the far side of the borders of fairyland. Instinctively I knew crossing over would mean more than fleeing the constant terror and shame that was mine at that time in my life. There was a knowledge that ran deeper – an understanding hidden in the marrow of my bones that only I can access – telling me that by crossing over, I’d be coming home.

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.

There are no happy endings,” Cerin told her. “There are no real endings ever – happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories, which are just a part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others’ stories – perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years – and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Change wasn’t necessarily bad. It was just scary.

We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.

Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are.

But most of us strive for harmony. The fact that we can fall into the darkness is what makes our choice to reach for the light such a precious thing.