“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”Lev Grossman The MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”Lev Grossman The MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”Lev Grossman The MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“There is really no end to life's little humiliations.”Lev Grossman The MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“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 The MagiciansSource: The Magicians
“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