Top 100 Lint Quotes
#1. 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.
Charles De Lint
#2. Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes."
...
"But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.
Charles De Lint
#3. Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
Charles De Lint
#4. He grew out his hair," June says. "He looks amazing."
"He looks like a giant caramel with some carpet lint stuck to the top of it.
Laura Ruby
#5. It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Charles De Lint
#6. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles De Lint
#7. The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
Charles De Lint
#8. Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
Charles De Lint
#9. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#10. I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
Charles De Lint
#11. What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#12. I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.
Jennifer Echols
#13. He feels like saying that of course there's lint on Mr. Wiggly, or dust at any rate, or maybe rust; what does she expect, because as she is well aware Mr. Wiggly has been on the shelf for some time.
Margaret Atwood
#14. *to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard
Eoin Colfer
#15. We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
Charles De Lint
#16. It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles De Lint
#17. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
Charles De Lint
#18. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
Charles De Lint
#19. [She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
Charles De Lint
#21. Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
Charles De Lint
#22. Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Charles De Lint
#23. In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.
Dave Sim
#24. living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.
Charles De Lint
#25. Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.
Charles De Lint
#26. If anything happened to you, I don't know what I would do." I lifted my head to eye him warily. "You're not going to do something weird with my dryer lint, are you?" "I never know what is going to come out of your mouth," he said, staring at me. "I enjoy that, in a morbid way.
Molly Harper
#27. I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.
Charles De Lint
#28. I could give a shit and piss who this is. She knows who we are. And she ain't got a little trickle goin' down her leg standing toe to toe with the bloodydamn Reaper of Mars, then she's got less brains than a wad of ass lint.
Pierce Brown
#29. The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
Charles De Lint
#30. My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
Charles De Lint
#31. An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year ... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
Charles De Lint
#32. Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Charles De Lint
#33. There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
Charles De Lint
#34. He's this Goth dude, can control people." "Goth, like a Visigoth German Viking of the middle ages, or a Neil Gaiman-looking, Robert Smith, make-up-and-moonbeams Cure fan?" "What's a Neil Gaiman?" "You're an idiot.
Charles De Lint
#35. 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.
Charles De Lint
#36. I can't think of a better rationale to create a work of art. I don't care what form one's art takes, it has to be an attempt to leave the world a better place than it was before we got here or it's not doing its job. And I don't mean just making things that are pretty.
Charles De Lint
#37. 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.
Charles De Lint
#38. I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
Charles De Lint
#39. You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Charles De Lint
#40. If all the darkness each of us carries within us, all our angers and unhappiness and bad moments were pulled out of us and given shape, we would all create monsters.
Charles De Lint
#41. I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles De Lint
#43. Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.
T.C. Boyle
#44. Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
Charles De Lint
#45. On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.
Steve Aylett
#46. All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
Charles De Lint
#47. There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.
Charles De Lint
#48. Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
Al Yankovic
#49. You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--"
"Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run into around here...well, maybe they won't like the length of your hair, but they'll keep their feelings to themselves.
Charles De Lint
#50. We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
Charles De Lint
#51. When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
Charles De Lint
#52. No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."
"We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested
Cassandra Clare
#53. She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.
Charles De Lint
#54. One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles De Lint
#55. Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Charles De Lint
#56. As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
Charles De Lint
#57. Are you going to say anything?"
Brisbane crossed one leg lazily over the other flicking an imaginary piece of lint from his trousers. "I think he is doing quite well without me."
"I did not mean for you to help him I meant for you to defend me," I said huffing slightly in my indignation.
Deanna Raybourn
#58. 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.
Charles De Lint
#59. She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
Charles De Lint
#60. I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
Beth Henley
#61. There was too much going on here
too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Charles De Lint
#62. Clint collected stray facts the way belly buttons collect lint.
Laura DiSilverio
#63. Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.
Kiki Dimoula
#64. I was Ms. Put My Foot in My Mouth, Speak Before Thinking, and Trip over Imaginary Lint.
Christy Barritt
#65. When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
Charles De Lint
#66. Captain's Log...
...Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of...
...Eating pocket lint.
It looks edible.
Ken Akamatsu
#67. I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
Charles De Lint
#68. When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
Hugh Prather
#69. It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
Charles De Lint
#70. 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.
Charles De Lint
#71. Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles De Lint
#72. It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
Charles De Lint
#73. I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.
Charles De Lint
#74. Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him"
Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?
J.R. Ward
#75. They have alls these laws and social boundaries to keep the worst of them in check. The problem is, villains and bullies just ignore that kind of thing.
Charles De Lint
#76. Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
Charles De Lint
#77. It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
Charles De Lint
#78. Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
Charles De Lint
#79. Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Charles De Lint
#80. Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an orange sleeve. 'I'm going to hell. That's where the action is.
Michael Nava
#81. Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
Charles De Lint
#82. It took me an eternity to get through the toast, which tasted like lint and was gray from the sky. The sky foretold the end of the world.
Haruki Murakami
#83. My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
Ellen Klages
#84. I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.
Courteney Cox
#85. I was never class clown in school,' said Lint in 1971. 'But I did have one of those "downward mouths".
Steve Aylett
#86. The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something.
Charles De Lint
#87. Wonderful. Visions of Aunt Bette McGyvering an explosive with that exposed nail, some lint from her pocket and spit filled my head just as the door opened quickly and shut just as quickly.
Kristen Ashley
#88. I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?
Charles De Lint
#89. 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.
Charles De Lint
#90. 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.
Charles De Lint
#91. Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."
Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?"
"That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this."
"You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said.
Charles De Lint
#92. The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Charles De Lint
#93. When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.
Charles De Lint
#94. It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
Charles De Lint
#95. The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT
Graham Joyce
#96. There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles De Lint
#97. By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
Charles De Lint
#98. To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.
Charles De Lint
#99. Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
Charles De Lint
#100. She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
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