Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
LEV GROSSMANMagic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
LEV GROSSMANMagic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
LEV GROSSMANI recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
LEV GROSSMANHe 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 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 GROSSMANI love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
LEV GROSSMANStop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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 GROSSMANA 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.
LEV GROSSMANMy book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
LEV GROSSMANSome of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
LEV GROSSMANI studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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 GROSSMANThe 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.
LEV GROSSMANThe process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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