Lev Grossman quotes

There is really no end to life's little humiliations. (Lev Grossman)
He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore. View quote
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His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. View quote
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I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began. View quote
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The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it? View quote
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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. View quote
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The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore. View quote
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If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. View quote
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. View quote
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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. View quote
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You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. (Lev Grossman)
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. View quote
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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. View quote
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment. View quote
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Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. View quote
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It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. View quote
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college. View quote
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I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. View quote
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Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all. (Lev Grossman)
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. View quote
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling. View quote
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It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak. View quote
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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! View quote
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