Frases de Lev Grossman

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“Deja de buscar la siguiente puerta secreta que te lleve a tu verdadera vida, deja de esperar. Ya la tienes; no hay otra. Estás aqui, y más te vale disfrutarla o seguirás sufriendo vayas donde vayas, hagas lo que hagas el resto de tu vida, eternamente.”

“No hay nada que le guste más a un adicto en recuperación que otro le cuente lo mal que lo pasó en los viejos tiempos y lo bajo que llegó a caer. Que empiece la fiesta.”

“¿Sabes lo mas divertido? Lo que es para partirse de risa? Que no es verdad, que ni siquiera lo quieres. Aunque todo esto terminase sin mas contratiempos, seguirías sin ser feliz. Te rendiste en Brooklyn y en Brakebills, y cuando llegue el momento también te rendirás en Fillory. Es lo más fácil, ¿verdad?”

“Quizás este era uno de esos momentos en los que ser un héroe no implicaba verse particularmente valiente. Solo era hacer lo que debías.”

“Si hay una sola lección que la vida nos enseña, es que desear no lo hace así.”

“Es hora de vivir con lo que tenemos y llorar lo que hemos perdido”

“No importaba dónde estuvieras, si estuvieras en una habitación llena de libros, al menos estarías a mitad de camino de casa.”

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

“You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!”

“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?”

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”

“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.”

“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”

“Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.”

“Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.”

“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.”

“We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”

“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.”

“we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.”

“quieter and more intense”

“Give 'em Hades.”