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The Blue Girl (Newford, #15) QUOTES

The Blue Girl (Newford, #15) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Charles de Lint , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)

2 " The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. "

― Charles de Lint , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)

3 " The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes. "

― Charles de Lint , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)

4 " Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them? "

― Charles de Lint , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)

5 " 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 , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)

6 " Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too."
"I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?"
"Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like."
We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is?
It's weird and not something you really think about, is it? "

― Charles de Lint , The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)