Цитаты из книги Король волшебников

Обидно сознавать, что ты не сам выбираешь свой путь, хотя Квентин вообще-то выбрал.

Может быть, другого пути и не было. Искатель приключений получает не то, что хочет, а то, с чем способен справиться.

Избавлю вас от подробностей, — обычная реплика Элиота, когда он собирался изложить все самое жуткое шаг за шагом.

О тайной школе волшебников Джулия ему не рассказывала — если она и была сумасшедшей, то дурой уж точно нет. Она смотрела «Терминатор-2» и помнила, что произошло с Сарой Коннор.

Страшновато жить, когда тебя не любят и ты никого не любишь...

Вот что такое настоящее приключение, осознал он со жгучей ясностью. Синоним боли.

Дичь надо выбирать с осторожностью - вдруг поймаешь.

“There is Deeper Magic at work here, my child. Even the gods must bow to it. That is the way.” “Oh, right. The Deeper Magic. I forgot about that.” The Deeper Magic always seemed to come up when Ember didn’t feel like doing something, or needed to close a plot hole.

That's the thing about those tricksters, isn't it: they're never all that fucking funny.

Welcome to Facelessbook: an antisocial network.

- Отбей им телеграмму, - предложил Квентин. - «Дорогие дальнеостровитяне тчк пришлите денег тчк если у вас их нет присылать не надо тчк».

Любая наука оказывается не просто труднее, чем ты ожидал, а выходит за рамки всех твоих ожиданий.

• Ты хочешь сказать, что боги не обладают свободой воли.
• То есть способностью совершать ошибки? Ею обладаем только мы, смертные.

Time, that dull mechanism that usually reliably stamped out one second after another, like parts on a conveyor belt, erupted into a glorious melody.

“Pardon me, Your Highness,” Eliot said, “but what the hell are you doing?” “Sorry. It’s the only room that was big enough for the matches.” “This is the part where I’m supposed to say, ‘Matches, what matches?’”

In all honesty Quentin had only a very vague idea of how tournaments worked, or even what they were, except that they were something kings used to do at some point between when Jesus was alive and when Shakespeare was alive, which was as close as Quentin could get to placing when the Middle Ages had actually happened.

There was some murmuring among the upper servants that such a spartan chamber was not entirely suitable for a king of Fillory, but Quentin had decided that one of the good things about being a king of Fillory was that you got to decide what’s suitable for a king of Fillory.

"I don't think they can change their minds. When you get to that level of power and knowledge and perfection, the question of what you should do next gets increasingly obvious. Everything is very rule-governed. All you can ever do in any given situation is the most gloriously perfect thing, and there's only one of them. Finally there aren't any choices left to make at all." "You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals."

In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity'. We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.