The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de LintGina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.
Charles de LintOne expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de LintLook inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Charles de Lint