Lev Grossman, The Magician King Quotes
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 were hard in ways that you didn't 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 he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
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 worth giving.
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.
What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?
You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.
You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!