My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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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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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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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 feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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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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