“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a… — 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
“If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it:… — 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
“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
“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
