The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

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.

You must passionately pursue your dreams for life.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.