Lev Quotes
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.
She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.
It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.
Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.
If you let others influence you, they will also let you influence them. But if you're only trying to teach them something, and put your ideas into people's brains, you will never succeed.
He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?
Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.
You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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.
It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.
If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.
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.
I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.
You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void.
What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?
If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.
You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.
You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
I call the right axe Sorrow, " she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.
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!
> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.
I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.
