“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 The Magician KingSource: The Magician King
“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 MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”Lev Grossman The Magician KingSource: The Magician King
“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”Lev Grossman book The Magician's LandSource: The Magician's Land
“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”Lev Grossman The Magician KingThe Magician King
“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”Lev Grossman book The Magician's LandSource: The Magician's Land
“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 The MagiciansSource: The Magicians