Lev Grossman - The Magician King (2011)

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

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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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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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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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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works. In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

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

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Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…

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

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That's what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child's game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn't matter. Death didn't respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.

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

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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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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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