Charles de Lint

"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 t…"

"There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into e…"

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

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

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

"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."

"While you live … you have a duty to life. … The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. … Otherwise they fade away."

"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."