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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.

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—	The Magicians, Lev Grossman

“When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory…it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.” — The Magicians, Lev Grossman

This art of the Physical Kids finding their first clock-tree in Fillory is by Christopher Shy, who also brought to life the image of Alice arriving at Brakebills.

Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

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—	The Magicians, Lev Grossman

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

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—	The Magician King, Lev Grossman

News on The Magicians TV Pilot »

I’m really anxious to see how the chronology of this series as a TV show is going to pan out. The fact that they’re even mentioning visiting south of France and Venice so soon and the showing of Julia’s stars makes me wonder if they’re going to cram both The Magicians and The Magician King into a single season? Describing the script’s dialogue as “Whedonesque” makes me hopeful, as I think Grossman’s characters do have that sensibility to them. I am just wishing with all my might that the show shapes up to be as well written and executed as the novels.

A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

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—	The Magicians, Lev Grossman

“When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slips through into Fillory…it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.” —The Magicians, Lev Grossman

Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

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—	The Magicians, Lev Grossman Make blogs, not war.