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Apparently if you’re enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
The Magician King (2011)
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
The Magician King (2011)
Welcome to Facelessbook: an antisocial network.
The Magician King (2011)
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
The Magician King (2011)
He wondered where this feeling was coming from, that he was improvising his part in a play that everybody else had a script for.
The Magician King (2011)
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.
The Magician King (2011)
She’d gotten good at coaxing. If all else failed she had the power of the bathroom handjob, and she wielded it with an iron fist.
The Magician King (2011)
It was too terrible to think about, so she dealt with it by not thinking about it.
The Magician King (2011)
Where was the line between a spell and a miracle?
The Magician King (2011)
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.
The Magician King (2011)
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)
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 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)
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)
Nothing. Blue screen of death: she’d crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
The Magician King (2011)
They were joined by Julia, who kept her sunglasses on and ate only marmite, straight from the jar, which if anything seemed like further proof of her declining humanity.
The Magician King (2011)
That’s when they turned to religion.
At this Julia pushed her chair back from the table. She could feel her intellectual gag reflex about to kick in.
The Magician King (2011)
It was fair to call it depression. She felt like shit, all the time. If that was depression, she had it. It must have been contagious. She’d caught it from the world.
The Magician King (2011)
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
The Magician King (2011)
I’ll plead insanity. I can back it up.
The Magician King (2011)