Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

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.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

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.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.

That's your response to everything: drink?""No, that's my response to nothing.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific