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 LintLies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
Charles de LintThere's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
Charles de Lint