Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

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.

We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.