That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“In real life it was like they were playing some children’s game. It was a little kid’s idea of a magical object.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“...until sunlight came bleeding up over the horizon, like more acid blood oozing out of his sick ruptured heart, which felt -… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. — 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
