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.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.