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41 " You can’t just decide to be happy.” “No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want? "
― Lev Grossman , The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
42 " The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. "
43 " 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. "
44 " Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. "
45 " Onward and upward. "
46 " There is really no end to life's little humiliations. "
47 " His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. "
48 " The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. "
49 " Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. "
50 " His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling. "
51 " She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. "
52 " You can't just decide to be happy.""No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want? Do you want to be the asshole who went to Fillory and was miserable there? Even in Fillory? Because that's who you are right now."There was something true about what Alice was saying. But he couldn't grasp it. It was too complex, or too simple. Too something...It was strange: he's thought that doing magic was the hardest thing he would ever do, but the rest of it was so much harder. It turned out that magic was the easy part. "
53 " Look, who's the talking bear here?” Quentin snapped. “Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up. "
54 " We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. "
55 " Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window? "
56 " Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping. "
57 " The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain. "
58 " Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain. "
59 " Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. "
60 " He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault. "