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Quotes from The Magicians — Lev Grossman

born 1969 United States

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36 quotes

Nobody can be touched by that much power without being corrupted.

The Magicians (2009)

It wasn’t nothing, but it wasn’t everything either.

The Magicians (2009)

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

The Magicians (2009)

Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it’ll only turn you into a monster.

The Magicians (2009)

New York’s magical underground may have been limited, but the number and variety of its drinking establishments was prodigious.

The Magicians (2009)

Everybody has their own idiopathic reaction to their childhood home.

The Magicians (2009)

A gang of wild turkeys patrolled the edge of the forest, upright and alert, looking oddly saurian and menacing, like a lost squadron of velociraptors.

The Magicians (2009)

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

The Magicians (2009)

It was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you.

The Magicians (2009)

Quinton didn’t know exactly how to put everything that was ridiculous about that idea in a single sentence.

The Magicians (2009)

Once magic was real everything else just seemed so unreal.

The Magicians (2009)

“Age,” Quentin heard him mutter. “It’s wasted on the young. Just like youth.”

The Magicians (2009)

Quentin had never met anybody so staggeringly and unapologetically affected.

The Magicians (2009)

The irony was quite comprehensively hideous.

The Magicians (2009)

Just then, for an instant, the film of reality slipped off the spokes of its projector. Everything went completely askew and then righted itself again as if nothing had happened.

The Magicians (2009)

They were crossing so many lines it was hard to figure out where they were anymore.

The Magicians (2009)

Quentin’s conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.

The Magicians (2009)

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)

Attribution

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