Charles de Lint Magic Quotations

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

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.

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.