Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.
Lev GrossmanTags: paraphrased
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
Lev GrossmanThat 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.
Lev GrossmanTags: world difficulty expectations
...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.
Lev GrossmanI killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.
Lev GrossmanDo you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.
You don't have to do anything. This is what you don't understand! You don't know any older magicians except our professors. It's a wasteland out there. Out here. You can do nothing or anything or everything, and none of it matters. You have to find something to really care about to keep from running totally off the rails. A lot of magicians never find it.
Lev GrossmanThat’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
Lev GrossmanTags: death
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
Lev GrossmanTags: heroes
He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off
Lev GrossmanTags: adventure
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