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Book: Dreams Underfoot
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  1. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    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.
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  2. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.
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  3. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
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  4. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    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.
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  5. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations."
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  6. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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  7. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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  8. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    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.
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  9. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
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  10. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    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.
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  11. Charles de Lint _ Dreams Underfoot

    You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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