Quotes from book

The Magician's Land

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

“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”

“quieter and more intense”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

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

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