“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 Land

Source: The Magician's Land

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American novelist, journalist 1969

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