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When you taste a Snickers (...) you are tasting industrialisation

Young (...) would learn that the best way to make a decent living was to find out how they could add value, not just perform a rote function

This is a book where the protagonist gets lost in a jungle in Papua New Guinea and her only memories from the place are worries about her boy troubles...

By leaving our safety net, we have thrown our souls upon the wind, exposing ourselves to all of the fears and dangers that we sought to protect each other from, and in doing so, we have made ourselves available to experience things that... border on the magical

Collective intelligence comes down to:
- social perceptiveness (emotional intelligence)
- equal participation
- proportion of women (strongly linked with social perceptiveness)

You have these lines you won't cross, But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won't instantly come to an end.

You have these lines you won't cross, But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won't instantly come to an end.

You have these lines you won't cross, But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won't instantly come to an end.

Quentin is so useless... Just looking at Alice being attacked and feeling bad about himself

No one would come right out and say it, but the worldwide magical ecology was suffering from a serious imbalance: too many magicians, not enough monsters

A bit of a Harry Potter rip-off. Technically not a bad book as it reads quite alright, but the characters are not very likable and the vocabulary used frequently feels pretentious.
A lot like fanfic - and lacks the magic of the things that happen in between adventures.