Top 100 Lint's Quotes
#1. Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd backed out of Millenium Lint's gigs for the past two weeks because of it."
"Actually, they changed their name," Jordan said. "They're Midnight Burrito now.
Cassandra Clare
#2. I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
Charles De Lint
#3. I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
Steven Wright
#4. Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles De Lint
#5. Everybody's got a true home - maybe not where they're living, but
where their heart lives.
Charles De Lint
#6. Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
Charles De Lint
#7. There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
Charles De Lint
#8. Your cat just got cat hair on me." "It's only fair," Min said. "Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.
Jennifer Crusie
#9. 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
#10. Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.
Charles De Lint
#11. There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.
Charles De Lint
#12. The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Charles De Lint
#13. A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
Charles De Lint
#14. We chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.
Charles De Lint
#15. It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
Charles De Lint
#16. 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
#17. It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
Charles De Lint
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
Charles De Lint
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get
Charles De Lint
#28. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.
Charles De Lint
#29. Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
Charles De Lint
#30. That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
Charles De Lint
#31. Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
Charles De Lint
#32. It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.
Charles De Lint
#33. It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
Charles De Lint
#34. You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
Charles De Lint
#35. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
Charles De Lint
#36. 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.
Charles De Lint
#37. I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real.
Charles De Lint
#38. 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.
Charles De Lint
#39. I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
Charles De Lint
#40. 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
#41. I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
Charles De Lint
#42. It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
Dennis Lehane
#43. I'm not ... ' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
Charles De Lint
#44. Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A good book reflects the reader, as much as it illuminates the author's text.
Charles De Lint
#45. What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on at the same time, only they're separated by- oh, I don't know- a kind of gauze or something. And maybe there are people that can see through that gauze.
Charles De Lint
#46. Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita
Charles De Lint
#47. You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Charles De Lint
#48. My mother read it when she was a teenager," Henry said, picking a piece of lint off his lap. "To Kill a Mockingbird. The day she accepted my father's proposal, she gave him a copy and told him that Atticus Finch is the kind of father she wants her husband to be.
Ophelia London
#49. There's nothing wrong with a youthful prospective. Don't forget- no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories you have to tell.
Charles De Lint
#50. The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important.- Jilly Coppercorn
Charles De Lint
#51. It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
Charles De Lint
#52. I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.
Jennifer Echols
#53. living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.
Charles De Lint
#54. 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
#55. Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Charles De Lint
#56. Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
Charles De Lint
#58. [She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
Charles De Lint
#59. 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
#60. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
Charles De Lint
#61. It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles De Lint
#62. We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
Charles De Lint
#63. *to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard
Eoin Colfer
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#67. 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
#68. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#69. 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
#70. The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
Charles De Lint
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.
Charles De Lint
#82. Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
Charles De Lint
#83. 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
#85. I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles De Lint
#86. 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
#87. You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Charles De Lint
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
Charles De Lint
#94. Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Charles De Lint
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
Charles De Lint
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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