Charles de Lint Quotes

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

Some people just want to be accepted.

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

I'm pretty invisible, and that's just fine.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.

Gay men can sometimes feel ashamed or chastised when the messaging is 'Be out and proud!' or 'Just come out.' It's not that easy. It certainly wasn't for me.

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

When people ask me for advice about when to come out, it's really about, before you do that, building a circle of support that can strengthen you through that experience. For me, it was my friends. There were people on 'My So-Called Life' that really helped guide me.

The truth is, for me, when I was a young black girl who knew I was different, was watching TV, I would always be staring at the TV set looking for myself, and I didn't see me. And when you don't see yourself, you start to think that you don't matter, or you start to think that something is wrong with you.

Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

Everybody is different; as long as you look like you belong and you can fit in, the world is you oyster now.