Charles de Lint Stories Quotations

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

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 each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

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.

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.