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.
Lev GrossmanI guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Lev GrossmanStop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.
Lev GrossmanAbout as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.
Lev GrossmanMost people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
Lev Grossman