The Magicians and the Magician King Quotes

“He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn’t think what else to do.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“She swore she could prove it mathematically, but the calculations required were so involved that they would have required a computer the size of the universe, running for a length of time that would have taken them past the projected heat-death of the universe, to work them out. It was pretty much the definition of moot.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she’d expect you to do the same for her.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King

“toastmaster”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians and the Magician King