The Magician King
Lev Grossman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”
“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
“He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.”
“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.”
“That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”
“Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.”
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Book Keywords:
hero, actions, world, quest, mind-over-matter, death, responsibility, courage, irritation, difficulty, self-esteem, worth, annoyance, self-awareness, expectations, heroes
