Charles de Lint Quotes about Lying

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

Charles de Lint

Lying, Light, Choices

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

Charles de Lint

Lying, Skins, Needs

Charles de Lint (2009). “The Mystery of Grace”, p.260, Macmillan

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Charles de Lint

Lying, Night, Blue

Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.190, Macmillan

I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

Charles de Lint

Lying, Twilight, Eye

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

Charles de Lint

Lying, Moving, Our World

"The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, 1991.