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Quotes from The Magician's Land — Lev Grossman

born 1969 United States

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37 quotes

Has it crossed your mind that you don’t have to go off on a holy crusade every time things don’t go your way?

The Magician's Land (2014)

You want to know what it’s like to be a demon? Imagine knowing, always and forever, that you are right, and that everyone and everything else is wrong.

The Magician's Land (2014)

I admit that you might possibly not be deluding yourself about that.

The Magician's Land (2014)

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.

The Magician's Land (2014)

There was nothing—in Eliot’s admittedly limited experience—more tedious than virtue.

The Magician's Land (2014)

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

The Magician's Land (2014)

But of course You can get so much done when everyone thinks You’re dead. No interruptions. No one prays to a dead God, why would they?

The Magician's Land (2014)

But you couldn’t mourn forever. Or you could, but as it turned out there were better things to do.

The Magician's Land (2014)

She wondered if later on she would wish she hadn’t looked. That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.

The Magician's Land (2014)

She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.

The Magician's Land (2014)

It was the sound of death, the ultimate irreversible.

The Magician's Land (2014)

“I’m making a serious point.”
“Yes, and I am mocking your serious point to show how ludicrous it is.”

The Magician's Land (2014)

But not even the end of the world was going to stop Janet from being a bitch. It was the principle of the thing.

The Magician's Land (2014)

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)

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)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lev Grossman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.