Lev Grossman Quotes - Page 2

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Everything people forget about ends up there one day, they said. Toys, tables, whole houses. And people end up there too. They get forgotten as well.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

his mind spinning and lurching like a dryer with a shoe in it

He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world - he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly, humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.