I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

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

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

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

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

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.

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

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.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment

The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset

Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.

just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people