“The Dancer and the Drum” by Charles Vess from Moonheart by Charles de Lint
“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
“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.”
I don’t think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don’t think it’s one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them—as many as there are people—because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.
“The Faerie Queen” by Brian Froud, used as the cover for The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint.
“What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.”
-Charles de Lint
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