“It was Italy after all. People probably hit each other all the time.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just have to do things, Quentin,” Julia said, as he climbed on board after her. “You spend too much of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“You can spend your life waiting and watching for perfect moments, but sometimes you have to make one happen.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Her depressive tendency, the flip side of her manic streak, was stirring. Why were they even doing this? it wanted to know.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He only had time to feel all the tenderness he had ever felt for her surge up in one infinitely concentrated instant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed -… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Quentin found himself staring at the end of his Brakebills careers across the perilously slender gap of only two months of time.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Clouds in Fillory weren’t clammy and disappointing the way they were in the real world, they brushed past you all warm and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Julia would do anything to make the time pass. She killed time, murdered it, massacred it and hid the bodies. She threw… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit,” Eliot said. “Though… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“if you’re too good too much of the time, people start to forget about you. You’re not a problem, so people can… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“She swore she could prove it mathematically, but the calculations required were so involved that they would have required a computer the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking for trouble.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
