Quote by Lev Grossman Download Open image ““He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating,”” — Lev Grossman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“Speed never killed anyone! It’s suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.” — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“He couldn't move. Running would get him killed. Fighting would get him killed. …Standing where he was, trembling and sweating, would get him killed.” — Ruth Ford Elward 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
