“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?”

—  Lev Grossman, The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

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American novelist, journalist 1969

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