Charles de Lint Important Quotations

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

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.