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“You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are real and some things aren’t. There’s a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.”

Charles de Lint

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 253
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”

Charles de Lint book Yarrow

Yarrow : An Autumn Tale (1997), p. 43

“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.”

Charles de Lint

Greenmantle (1998). p. 322

“It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn…”

Charles de Lint

Part One: The Hidden People, "Border Spirit" p. 335
The Little Country (1991)

“I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.”

Charles de Lint

"Journal Entries", p. 118
Memory and Dream (1994)

“The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.”

Charles de Lint

“The Forest is Crying”, p. 44 (quoting Pat Cadigan)
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“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.”

Charles de Lint

Part One: The Hidden People, "Border Spirit" p. 334
The Little Country (1991)

“That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her.”

Charles de Lint

“Pal o’ Mine”, p. 244
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.”

Charles de Lint

“The Wishing Well”, p. 74
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.”

Charles de Lint

“Pal o’ Mine”, p. 244
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?”

Charles de Lint

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 267
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of — heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.”

Charles de Lint

Lammond in Ch. 36 p. 227
Into the Green (1993)

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.”

Charles de Lint

"Romano Drom" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 118

“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.”

Charles de Lint

Making a Noise in This World in Hartwell ed. Year's Best Fantasy, (2000) p. 326

“The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.”

Charles de Lint

"Dream Harder, Dream True", p. 293
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“Compromise is necessary,” Max agreed, “so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.”

Charles de Lint

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 291
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.”

Charles de Lint

Part One: The Hidden People, "The Quarrlsome Piper" p. 19
The Little Country (1991)

“Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”

Charles de Lint

“The Pochade Box”, p. 318
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”

Charles de Lint

"Tallulah" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 399

“Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.”

Charles de Lint

“Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black”, p. 212
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)