His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
LEV GROSSMANHis whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
LEV GROSSMANWe have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
LEV GROSSMANThe real world is horrible.
LEV GROSSMANPeople – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
LEV GROSSMANThe truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
LEV GROSSMANIt turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
LEV GROSSMANSupposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
LEV GROSSMANIn a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
LEV GROSSMANYou’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
LEV GROSSMANYou’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!
LEV GROSSMANMagic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
LEV GROSSMANJosh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
LEV GROSSMANA magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANEscapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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.
LEV GROSSMANHe who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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