You love and you hate and you grieve and you don’t even feel it.
But the thing about monsters was, you couldn’t talk to them about it, because they wouldn’t admit they were monsters in the first place.
Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.
I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit,” Eliot said. “Though that would explain a lot.
Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has to do is behave honorably and bravely and all will be well. What a lesson to teach young children. What a way to prepare them for the rest of their lives.
Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.
But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it’s ruined.
You don’t live in a castle full of spiral stairs without getting calves of adamantium.
They went around the room telling stories about how they’d gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain family resemblance. Somebody went looking for a lost ball in an alley, or a stray goat in a drainage ditch, or fallowed an inexplicable extra cable in the high school computer room which led to a server closet that had never been there before.
I find that if you’re a good student, the teacher hardly matters.
It’s turtles all the way down.
You can spend your life waiting and watching for perfect moments, but sometimes you have to make one happen.
And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.
They were where he went when he couldn’t deal with the real world, which was a lot.
He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?
Some people need their families to become who they’re supposed to be. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.
He’d been free his whole life, if only he’d known it.
More lies. But what could you do? That’s how you roll when you’re a teenage magician!
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.” “You can’t just decide to be happy.” “No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable.
The problem was that Julia was smart, and Julia was interested in the truth. She didn’t like inconsistencies, and she didn’t let go until they were resolved, ever.