{"author":"Charles de Lint","author_id":"Charles+de+Lint","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["inspirational","stories"],"id":1467,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["art","completion","potential","rightness"],"id":12716,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"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 true, but then so's everything.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["life","stories"],"id":21695,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"Everybody has a soul.' I turn to Pelly. 'And that means you, too.' 'I'm not so sure of that,' he says. 'What does it feel like?' 'Having a soul?' I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. 'I don't know,' I tell Pelly. 'I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like.' We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is? It's weird and not something you really think about, is it?","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["inspirational","soul","thoughts"],"id":37830,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["isolation","loneliness","people"],"id":39932,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["compassion","helping-others","inspirational","personal-responsibility"],"id":66194,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["forests","mystery","trees","world"],"id":79315,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["magic"],"id":90623,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["world","small","people "],"id":96752,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"},{"text":"We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.","author":"Charles de Lint","tags":["ideas","love","sight"],"id":112805,"author_id":"Charles+de+Lint"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}