All Lev Grossman Quotes
- Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more. Absolutely
- It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think… Anybody
- Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything… Anything Worth
- Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues. Cues
- Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. Comic
- You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. Didn
- That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s… Bullshit
- A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any… Any
- Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. Change
- Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out… All
- Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was… Beating
- When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house… Always Promised
- We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. Best
- Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Brave
- He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even… All
- The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the… Hero
- Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the… Audit
- That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they… Expect
- By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that… Annoyed
- She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest… Bad
- Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it. Careful
- He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. Becomes
- Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. Brave
- Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. Door
- Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped… Apocalypse