You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

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.

The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

Daniel Lowe. My savior. My perfect guy. The boy who would never love me the way that I loved him.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.