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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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Blinded
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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