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It is through others that we become ourselves.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
— 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
"Quentin helped. — Lev Grossman
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
— Lev Grossman
I was looking for long term, and, my Lev ... he would give me long term. My heart belonged to him. Lord help the person who tried to get between us.
— Belle Aurora
Lev was a clink in my armor, a crack in my wall,
— Belle Aurora
The multiverse was his TGI Friday's.
— Lev Grossman
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
— Lev S. Vygotsky
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
— Lev Yashin
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
— Lev S. Vygotsky
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.
— Lev Grossman
In case of Ragnarok break glass and play an E flat. Where's
— Lev Grossman
Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold
— Neal Shusterman
Through others we become ourselves.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
— Lev Grossman
He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.
— Lev Shestov
No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.
— Lev Grossman
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
That's how you roll when you're a secret teenage magician
— Lev Grossman
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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
[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.
— Paul Auster
Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.
— Lev Grossman
There's no getting away from yourself. Not even in Fillory.
— Lev Grossman
With the traditional Australian's indifference to personal dryness and venomous underwater predators, she dived right in.
— Lev Grossman
It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
— Lev Grossman
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
— Lev L. Spiro
More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!
— Lev Grossman
It would be like Prospero's island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician's land.
— Lev Grossman
Of course I'm not sure," he said. "That's why you go. To find out if it's enough. You just have to be sure you want to find out.
— Lev Grossman
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
— Lev Grossman
Language is the tool of the tools
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.
— Lev Grossman
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
— Lev Grossman
Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.
— Lev Shestov
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
— Lev Grossman
And I need this. That's all I can tell you.
— Lev Grossman
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
— 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
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
Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.
— Lev Shestov
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
Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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
To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.
— Lev Shestov
My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.
— Lev L. Spiro
One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.
— Lev Shestov
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
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
But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined.
— Lev Grossman
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
— Lev Vygotsky
I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.
— Lev L. Spiro
Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.
— 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
Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.
— Lev Grossman
Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.
— Lev Grossman
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
— Lev Grossman
Whoever that hermit was, he obviously despised his fellow man, and that meant he was OK in Eliot's book.
— Lev Grossman
What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane.
— 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
Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.
— 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
Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.
— Lev Grossman