You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
– Lev Grossman
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- She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he’d ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him. – Lev Grossman
- Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues. – Lev Grossman
- He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that? – Lev Grossman
- Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life. – Lev Grossman
- You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people. – Lev Grossman
- It’s time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. – Lev Grossman
- If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine. – Lev Grossman
- Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it. – Lev Grossman
- By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves. – Lev Grossman
- What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn’t an adventure? – Lev Grossman
- If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. – Lev Grossman
- You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.- -œThe power to make mistakes,- Penny said. -œOnly we have that. Mortals. – Lev Grossman
- Living in a castle is objectively romantic. – Lev Grossman
- You can have a failed quest, but you can’t have an achieved quest and no reward. – Sara Maitland
- The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest! – R N Prasher
- I wanted her love she wanted mine. In the quest of expecting anddisappointing.The almost perfect relationship died. – shivangi lavaniya
- I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
- I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
- Through others we become ourselves. – Lev S Vygotsky
- A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. – Lev S Vygotsky
- By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. – Lev S Vygotsky
- You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn’t. – Neal Shusterman
- But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible. – Lev Shestov
- The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. – Lev S Vygotsky
- I don’t want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted – and not just towards cats and dogs. – Vasily Grossman
- In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good. – Vasily Grossman
- There’s nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you’ve suffered. – Vasily Grossman
- A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house. – Allen Grossman
- … as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to ‘metal objects designed to cause harm’. – Austin Grossman
- One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence. – David Grossman
- Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else? – Hilary Grossman
- It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool. – Hilary Grossman
- She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean. – Hilary Grossman
- No matter how old you are, you always want your mother’s love and acceptance. I guess I’m hoping one day I’ll get it back. – Hilary Grossman
- I always ended up doing things I didn’t want to do today just so I didn’t regret not doing them tomorrow. – Hilary Grossman
- The day you discover the GOD within, your quest to meet GOD outside stops!!! – Harrish Sairaman
- Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest. – Debasish Mridha
- My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure. – Lailah Gifty Akita