Quotes by Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was ju — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
I guess we’re supposed to have faith.”“I never really took you for the faith-having kind,” Quentin said.“I didn’t either — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was tha — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues. — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weigh — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradict — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure? — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals. — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Living in a castle is objectively romantic. — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art an — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
...being around him wasn’t good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum— — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’v — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but yo — Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. — Lev Grossman, The Magician King