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The Onion Girl (Newford, #8) QUOTES

The Onion Girl (Newford, #8) QUOTES

1 " Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

2 " Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

3 " Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

4 " Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

5 " 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 , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

6 " There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

7 " There's never an easy route to the things that matter. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

8 " 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 , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

9 " All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

10 " There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

11 " 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 , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

12 " I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it? "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

13 " 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 , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

14 " The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

15 " Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

16 " I knew it wasn't simply escape that lay on the far side of the borders of fairyland. Instinctively I knew crossing over would mean more than fleeing the constant terror and shame that was mine at that time in my life. There was a knowledge that ran deeper--an understanding hidden in the marrow of my bones that only I can access--telling me that by crossing over, I'd be coming home. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

17 " People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys through the dark woods and the kindness of strangers treated decently, the knowledge that can be gained from the company and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots and steadfast tin soldiers. I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons, but more subtle ones. The kind that seep up from your sub¬conscious and give you moral and humane structures for your life. That teach you how to prevail, and trust. And maybe even love. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)

18 " There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads. In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle, sometimes literally. "

― Charles de Lint , The Onion Girl (Newford, #8)