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.
LEV GROSSMANI’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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 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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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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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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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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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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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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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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