"It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives."

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Source : Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.435, Macmillan

Charles de Lint

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