Children Quotes by Lev Grossman

9 Children quotes by Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman’s nine brief musings on children blend imagination with a touch of melancholy. Though the list is modest, it offers a quick peek into his creative take on the wonder and challenges of youth.

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“Wishes are for children,” Jane Chatwin said. “I grew up.”

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“...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.”

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“He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.”

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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

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“In real life it was like they were playing some children’s game. It was a little kid’s idea of a magical object.…

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“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to…

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“...until sunlight came bleeding up over the horizon, like more acid blood oozing out of his sick ruptured heart, which felt -…

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When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to…

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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…

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“It was about damn time something happened.”

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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…

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“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”

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“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

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As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

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“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…

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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…

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By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something…

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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read…

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“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…

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“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.…

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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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…

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I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I…

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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,…

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