In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else,… — 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
“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When… — 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
“it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“In real life humans didn’t slay giants, because it was impossible. It would be like killing an apartment building with your bare… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The separation of word and thing is the essential fact on which our adult lives are founded.” — 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
“There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if man was really meant to discover magic,” Fogg said expansively. “It doesn’t really make sense. It’s a little… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall,… — 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
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“See, when you had magic in your life, it turned out, when you lived the double life of a secret underground magician,… — 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
