What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

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

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.

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.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!

if you eat menand still feel like you’re starving, you’re craving something that they cannot give.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables.

Do nice things for people who may be less fortunate than you.