Quotes from Lev Grossman, The Magicians

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

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

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't.