“Eliot had no idea where he was going, but he’d read enough to know that a state of relative ignorance wasn’t necessarily… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Sure, but real life’s not actually like that,” Quentin went on, fumbling after what he was sure was an important insight. “You… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to… — 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 Image
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
