I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
Lev GrossmanTags: love relationships desire trouble
Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.
Lev GrossmanTags: codex
He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.
Lev GrossmanTags: the-magicians
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Lev GrossmanTags: wishes life-lessons life-truths reality-check
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.
Lev GrossmanMost people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
Lev GrossmanThe problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
Lev GrossmanWe have lived too long. The great days are past.
Lev GrossmanTags: life
The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
Lev GrossmanTags: truth
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
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