Charles de Lint Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

  Stars, Heart, Tree

• I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

  Charles de Lint

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

• Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

  Charles de Lint

  Tattoo, Heart, Skins

• 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

  Wall, Heart, Iron

• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Heart, Broken, Car

  Charles de Lint (2009). “The Mystery of Grace”, p.235, Macmillan

• I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Stories, Forget

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.436, Macmillan

• 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

  Running, Heart, Doors

  Charles de Lint (2009). “Medicine Road”, p.180, Tachyon Publications

• There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

  Charles de Lint

  Friendship, Heart, People

  "The Ivory and the Horn: A Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

• 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

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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