The Silver Arrow

by Lev Grossman

Weird how boys had feelings, too, but pretended they didn’t.

For a certain kind of person there is literally nothing nicer than eating breakfast by yourself on a moving train with a good book.

Me too

books about ordinary people who find out that magic is real.

Hello Q!

They weren’t tame. They weren’t safe.

It didn’t seem like anybody involved had had such bad intentions, really. They were small gestures. She still thought the Shakespeare thing sounded cool. But then look at what had happened! Everything that was so neatly balanced was ruined.

Whenever you take a train you can clearly see there are ladders to get up there, but for some ridiculous reason nobody’s ever allowed to use them except train conductors and people having fistfights in action movies.

Lol

When you’re a child the adult world looks so exciting, and it is, but it’s also so much sadder and more complicated than you expect. And you can’t just take the good parts, you have to take it all, even if it’s not what you wanted.

Every second of every day you’re going somewhere you’ve never been before. The adventure never ends!”