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It was ending too soon, the way everything did, everything except Ebola viruses and really bad people like psychopaths. Those things never ended. — Lev Grossman

Wands out, Harry. — Lev Grossman

The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. — Lev Grossman

You hate yourself so much, you'll hurt anybody who loves you. That's it, isn't it? Just to get even with them for loving you. — Lev Grossman

When he watched TV, all he saw was an image of his own face, with a mysterious empty city in the background. — Lev Grossman

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late. — Lev Grossman

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd. — Lev Grossman

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. — Lev Grossman

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house. — Lev Grossman

Hello," he said, not missing a beat. "Glad you could make it. Alice, I understand you burned our door in half."
"Quentin helped. — Lev Grossman

Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the tip of your sword. — Lev Grossman

That's it?" "That's it. And then you jump in. It's all just tradition. I mean, — Lev Grossman

Once in a while an entire sub-sub-category that had long been thought safely dormant would take wing with an indescribable papery susurrus. — Lev Grossman

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence. — Lev Grossman

Everything will be all right, She seemed to say, and whatever is not, we will mourn. — Lev Grossman

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more. — Lev Grossman

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. — Lev Grossman

Everything people forget about ends up there one day, they said. Toys, tables, whole houses. And people end up there too. They get forgotten as well. — Lev Grossman

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming. — Lev Grossman

A gang of wild turkeys patrolled the edge of the forest, upright and alert, looking oddly saurian and menacing, like a lost squadron of velociraptors. — Lev Grossman

Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs. — Lev Grossman

It was Italy after all. People probably hit each other all the time. — Lev Grossman

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman

Whoever that hermit was, he obviously despised his fellow man, and that meant he was OK in Eliot's book. — Lev Grossman

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You — Lev Grossman

Look, who's the talking bear here?" Quentin snapped. "Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up. — Lev Grossman

Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional! — Lev Grossman

What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane. — Lev Grossman

Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it. — Lev Grossman

Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it. — Lev Grossman

I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury. — Lev Grossman

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life. — Lev Grossman

I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot. — Lev Grossman

sometimes God wants your son. sometimes He'll settle for a ram. PouncySilverkitten: — Lev Grossman

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving. — Lev Grossman

What is written with a sword cannot be erased. — Lev Grossman

Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world. — Lev Grossman

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell. — Lev Grossman

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. — Lev Grossman

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously. — Lev Grossman

But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined. — Lev Grossman

He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending. — Lev Grossman

You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it. — Lev Grossman

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues. — Lev Grossman

Facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future. — Lev Grossman

All of human literature could just be a user's guide to the multiverse! — Lev Grossman

But being in the middle of it, it wasn't that obvious. — Lev Grossman

That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny. — Lev Grossman

Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis. — Lev Grossman

If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his. — Lev Grossman

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. — Lev Grossman

His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king. — Lev Grossman

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan. — Lev Grossman

The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb. — Lev Grossman

The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. — Lev Grossman

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. — Lev Grossman

The quietness of it was weird: real fights happened without a sound track. — Lev Grossman

Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else. — Lev Grossman

Shit was getting geological, yo. — Lev Grossman

Humbledrum farted mournfully, three distinct notes. — Lev Grossman

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. — Lev Grossman

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. — Lev Grossman

Janet was in charge of relations with foreign powers - Quentin called her Fillory Clinton. — Lev Grossman

Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around — Lev Grossman

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books. — Lev Grossman

You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with you. — Lev Grossman

You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. — Lev Grossman

was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you - he — Lev Grossman

Credulity that was being tested. A fat man with red — Lev Grossman

And I need this. That's all I can tell you. — Lev Grossman

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They — Lev Grossman

We found some of them. It was always either a fight — Lev Grossman

Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness. — Lev Grossman

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for. — Lev Grossman

In real life humans didn't slay giants, because it was impossible. It would be like killing an apartment building with your bare hands. — Lev Grossman

I don't know how to phrase this exactly but what the fuck? — Lev Grossman

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman

Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low. — Lev Grossman

But it wasn't going to kill him. It wasn't sexy, but it was real, and that was what mattered now. No more fantasies - that was life after Fillory. — Lev Grossman

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either. — Lev Grossman

Age is wasted on the young. Just like youth. — Lev Grossman

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out. — Lev Grossman

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern. — Lev Grossman

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that. — Lev Grossman

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. — Lev Grossman

They were where he went when he couldn't deal with the real world, which was a lot. — Lev Grossman

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live. — Lev Grossman

To live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster. — Lev Grossman

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician. — Lev Grossman

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. — Lev Grossman

He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win. — Lev Grossman

Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he's still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause. — Lev Grossman

Plum guessed it stood to reason that out of all these billions of books at least one of them had to be dragon porn. — Lev Grossman

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

Maybe he was the anti-Santa, of the South Pole, and he was going to show them where the elves made lumps of coal for Anti-Christmas. — Lev Grossman

He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook. — Lev Grossman

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good. — Lev Grossman

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred. — Lev Grossman

She strode the earth clad in the invisible armor of their virtual companionship. — Lev Grossman