They gave him a lot of freedom and never asked him for much. Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don't have anything worth giving.

The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything is.

"I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot."

Ненормальный математик может представить в виде графика всё что хочешь.

Квентин, поставив ногу на медную утку, поймал на себе взгляд рулевого. Да, гражданин, твой король лезет на мачту, не зная, как это делается. Смирись с этим.

Когда с тебя ничего не требуют, тебе начинает казаться, что ты ни на что путное в общем и не способен - странно, да?

It was summer again, and the summer nights smelled like murdered grass and sounded like crickets fucking.

“What,” Julia said, “the fuck.”
“Holy shit,” said Failstaff.
“This is exceeding expectations,” Asmo said.

В тот день, после ухода Квентина, Джулия рухнула окончательно. Если состояние, когда чувствуешь себя паршиво нон-стоп, называется депрессией, то, значит, это она и была.

То, что Квентин влюблен в нее, а она не чувствует к нему никакого влечения, угнетало ее, но не так чтобы очень.

Взрослые не должны говорить «так нечестно»… хотя это и в самом деле нечестно.

У Квентина зародилась теория, что эта горка придумана для унижения. Как будто все, чем ты жил, о чем мыслил, было просто детской игрой. Смерть никого не уважает и хочет, чтобы ты это понял.

“What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?”

I can promise you there will be no constitutional crises if we go to Whitespire. We don't even have a constitution. Or if we do I promise you nobody's ever read it.

But some people, a very few people, were different. Magic meant something else to them, something more primal and urgent. They didn't have a secret, the secret had them.

What kind of a god wasn't at the top of the food chain in His own world?

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

But somewhere under all that water there was a button. And a dragon. It didn't seem real. He half-suspected Josh of having lost the button in a sofa and making up the story about the dragon because it was less embarrassing.