My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

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.

Focus! (said a voice within me). We are here to craft emotions. To become a better person. Not to waste our serenity on someone who had a poor upbringing and are not taught manners.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.