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Author::Person/Lev Grossman
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Series::Book/Series/The Magicians
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Tags:: book fantasy people who try very hard
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Dedication
For Halcyon
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Date Captured::March 1st, 2018
Dedication
Halcyon
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Date Captured::December 27th, 2015
Eliot used to worry that his lack of a long-term life partner meant that he was psychologically unhealthy—emotionally arrested, maybe, or commitment-phobic, or something. But he worried about that less and less. He didn’t feel arrested, or phobic. He just felt like being single.
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Date Captured::November 6th, 2016
CHAPTER 1
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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Date Captured::December 27th, 2015
Piranesi drawings
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Date Captured::December 27th, 2015
CHAPTER 2
Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there’s more to life than dreaming.
Date Captured::December 28th, 2015
He couldn't imagine the two worlds touching: his parents' sedate, orderly marital idyll and the wild, messy, arcane world of magic. It was impossible. They would explode on contact, like matter and antimatter
Date Captured::February 7th, 2019
CHAPTER 4
ammonite
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Date Captured::February 7th, 2019
CHAPTER 8
bravura
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Date Captured::March 1st, 2016
It was not wholly unlike trying to walk on a black, cold, unusually violent bouncy castle
Date Captured::February 10th, 2019
Bears and seals. For some reason they don't do foxes anymore
Date Captured::February 10th, 2019
CHAPTER 9
tympanum
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Date Captured::December 28th, 2015
CHAPTER 10
"Truth was a substance soluble in lichen vodka."
Date Captured::December 28th, 2015
Chapter:: Chapter 10
Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.
Date Captured::December 28th, 2015
he was calling on things that partook of the world beyond childhood, whose touch would leave him even less innocent than he already was. What would that make him? Neither a child nor an adult, neither innocent nor wise. Perhaps that is what a monster is.
Date Captured::November 16th, 2016
The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west.
Date Captured::March 1st, 2018
CHAPTER 11
The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west.
Date Captured::December 28th, 2015
CHAPTER 16
she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 17
But people are slow to recognize anger in little children, and children never recognize it in themselves, so it comes out in other ways.
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 18
in its way too much happiness was as dangerous as too much sadness
Tags::personal philosophy
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
excoriating
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 19
pernambuco
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 22
Gordian knot
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 23
Then the air around her darkened, and the world began falling into her
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 24
Maybe the only place she’d ever been happy was about to fall apart. But not even the end of the world was going to stop Janet from being a bitch. It was the principle of the thing.
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
adamantium
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 28
A Möbius person.
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
CHAPTER 31
Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.
Date Captured::December 30th, 2015
kibitzed
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Date Captured::December 30th, 2015