The Ivory and the Horn Quotes

“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
― Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn

“Embrace wonder for one moment without the need to consider how that wonder came to be, without the need to justify if it be real or not.”
― Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn

“The world beyond this night’s dreams retains a firm grip, shackling her own spirit’s grace with the knowledge of its existence and her place in it.”
― Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn

“Sometimes I feel as though there’s this hidden country inside me, a landscape that’s going to remain forever unexplored because I can’t make a normal connection with another human being, with someone who might map it out for me. It’s my land, it belongs to me, but I’m denied access to it. The only way I could ever see it is through the eyes of someone outside this body of mine, through the eyes of somebody who loves me.”
― Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn

“Often,” he says, “what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.”
― Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn