His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

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.

To fit into the need of God is to manifest his love-nature

Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.