Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

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

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.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

The tree does not die, it waits.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.