Lev Grossman Short Quotes

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You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

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Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

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

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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

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

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

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If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

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

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

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It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

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You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

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Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

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

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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

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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.

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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.

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He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though— and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger— he was angry only because his position was so weak.

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