I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

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.

For me love is when I don't limit you, I put you on the rainbows......beyond eternity of time and destiny

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

There ain't no me if there ain't no you.

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.