105 quotes
Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he’s still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause.
The Magician's Land (2014)
Venice was the only city he’d ever seen that looked the same in real life as it did in pictures. It was consoling that something in this world met expectations.
The Magician King (2011)
Quentin’s conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.
The Magicians (2009)
Hate isn’t like love, it doesn’t end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it’s so pure, so unconditional!
The Magician's Land (2014)
The war we are losing is with time.
The Magician's Land (2014)
Up through around twenty-five he’d never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.
The Magician's Land (2014)
Heads turned. This was gossip of the very first water—pure pharmaceutical-grade gossip.
The Magician's Land (2014)
That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn’t make excuses, and it was never funny.
The Magician's Land (2014)
It was always easier to screw up somebody else’s spell than it was to cast one yourself. That was one of the many small unfairnesses of magic.
The Magician's Land (2014)
Quentin wished she weren’t so attractive. Unpretty women were so much easier to deal with in someways—you didn’t have to face the pain of their probable unattainability.
The Magicians (2009)
In different ways they had both discovered the same truth: that to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.
The Magicians (2009)
He had no interest in TV anymore—it looked like an electronic puppet show to him, an artificial version of an imitation world that meant nothing to him anyway.
The Magicians (2009)
Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it. Maybe it was all a game, that got crumpled up and thrown away at the end, but while you were here it was real.
The Magician King (2011)
He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping and uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters. It wasn’t something he had much practice at.
The Magicians (2009)
Some tiny sane part of him knew he was out of control, but that wasn’t the part of him that had its hands on the wheel.
The Magicians (2009)
He threw his sword away. Screw swords. A magician doesn’t need a sword. A magician doesn’t need anything but what’s inside him.
The Magician King (2011)
Anyway, the mood he was in, Quentin was willing to take any position on any subject with anybody if it meant he could pick a fight.
The Magicians (2009)
“A Man, a Plan, a Bacchanal: Anomie,” said Peters, grandly.
Warp (1997)
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.
The Magician King (2011)
Life was briskly and efficiently stripping Quentin of his last delusions about himself, one by one, shucking them off in firm hard jerks like wet clothes, leaving him naked and shivering.
The Magician's Land (2014)