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She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. (Lev Grossman)
If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine. View quote
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it. View quote
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. View quote
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The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain. View quote
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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. View quote
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Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. View quote
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. View quote
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Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die. (Lev Grossman)
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. View quote
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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian. View quote
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Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window? View quote
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Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping. View quote
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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works. View quote
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When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence. View quote
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You can't just decide to be happy.” "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want? View quote
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Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out. View quote
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He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault. View quote
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we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would. (Lev Grossman)
quieter and more intense. View quote
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Give 'em Hades. View quote
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She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else. View quote
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That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread. View quote
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