The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)

by Lev Grossman

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.

Nothing made you feel more like a fucking sorcerer than aviating under your own power. Yippee ki-yay, motherfuckers.

“Awesome. Thanks, man.” He turned to Poppy. “Are you in on this? Or do you still want to go back to the real world?” “Are you kidding?” She grinned and pressed herself against him. “Fuck reality, baby. Let’s go save the universe.”