Lev Grossman citations

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“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

“You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!”

“Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?”

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”

“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.”

“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”

“Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.”

“Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.”

“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”

“We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”

“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.”

“we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.”

“quieter and more intense”

“Give 'em Hades.”