Quotes from work

The Magician King

“He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.”

“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!”

“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”

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

“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.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”

“Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.”

“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”