His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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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Escapism 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.
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The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Some 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.
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