Deborah Huffman

“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“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 Lint, The Onion Girl