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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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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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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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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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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.
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