Widdershins Quotes

“What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“It was all cheese and applause.”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“He had too much cat in his blood - a deep-rooted feline twitch that would travel the length of his nerves to tickle his mind at the faintest sign of a mystery, no matter how small. He could no more let a riddle go unsolved than he could pass by the perfect length of colourful wire without picking it up.”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“Except when they said crow, they meant corbae, because crow in the old Kickaha language translated into any kind of blackbird or jay: crow, raven, rook, blue jay, grackle. All the corbae cousins. The guardian spirits of the Kickaha.”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“But I’ll stand up to anybody—for myself, for my friends, for whoever needs me to. I don’t abide bullies”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“Careful doesn’t make for great art.”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins

“You don’t understand,” she says. “Human lives are so fleeting compared to ours.” “You’re right,” Joe agrees. “I don’t understand, and I don’t particularly want to. Because what’s important is now. What’s important is the faith and trust and love you build with your relationship to someone else. What’s important is that you take care of your own and make sure wrongs are righted.”
― Charles de Lint, Widdershins