Цитаты из книги The Magicians

“Listen to me carefully,” Fogg was saying. “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.

“But you live in the magical world, and it’s a great gift. And if you want to get killed here, you’ll find plenty of opportunities without killing each other.”

You found out, didn't you? There's no getting away from yourself. Not even in Fillory.

All of 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. This couldn't be it. It had been diverted somewhere else, to somebody else, and he'd been issued this shitty substitute faux life instead.

Это не сказка, где добро побеждает автоматически; это все тот же реальный мир, где несчастья случаются без всякой причины и люди расплачивается за не умышленные поступки.

Не слишком творческий индивид вывел на первой странице ОСТАВЬ НАДЕЖДУ ВСЯК СЮДА ВХОДЯЩИЙ. Квентину почему-то казалось, что Маяковский это граффити видел, но не стал убирать.

"Взрослый, живущий детскими фантазиями, беды не минует". А как же вера в чудо?..

Чтобы твои чары сработали, вкладывайся в них весь, с потрохами.

- Вот это ответ, - похвалил сильно набравшийся Элиот. - Универсальный, можно сказать. Упаси нас господь от христианских магов - ты говоришь в точности как мои невежественные христианские предки. Если что-то не укладывается в твою теорию, так это потому, что тайна сия велика есть и нам не дано её видеть. Нам грешным. Чего уж проще.

Сила мага в его способности ощущать боль. <...> Маг потому и маг, что страдает больше других.

Because the farther down you go, the bigger and scalier the turtles get, with sharper and sharper beaks. Until eventually they start looking less like turtles and more like dragons.

В жизни мы не отправляемся совершать подвиги во имя добра, и хорошего конца тоже ждать не приходиться. Мы с вами не в сказке, где кто-то все сочинил за нас. Реальный мир работает по другому.

У каждого своя идеопатическая реакция на родной дом.

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 somewhere better

Вы сказали слова, и они изменили вселенную.

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.

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

"Listen, I don't want to pry,"Quentin said,"but I'm assuming you have some secret magical way of dealing with the negative health effects of all those cigarettes." "It's kind of you to ask. I sacrifice a virgin schoolgirl every other fortnight by the light of a gibbous moon, using a silver scalpel forged by Swiss albinos. Who are also virgins. Clears my lungs right up."

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?

I think you’re magicians because you’re unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it.