It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

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.

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

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.

I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise

Hunger is not debatable.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.