Lev Calder Quotes

Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.
Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it."
"Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it. ~ Neal Shusterman

Suppose it really was a school for magic. Was it any good? What if he'd stumbled into some third-tier magic college by accident? He had to think practically. He didn't want to be committing himself to some community college of sorcery when he could have Magic Harvard or whatever. "Don't ~ Lev Grossman

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view. ~ Lev Grossman

In case of Ragnarok break glass and play an E flat. Where's ~ Lev Grossman

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. ~ Alexander Calder

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from. ~ Alexander Calder

The smell of life." "The smell of farts. ~ Lev Grossman

Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?'

Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?'

'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?'

'The kind you obey. ~ Joe Abercrombie

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom. ~ Lisa Cholodenko

trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. The ~ Lev Grossman

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself. ~ Lev Raphael

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. ~ Alexander Calder

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. ~ Lev L. Spiro

To become a magician you must do something very different," the man said. This was clearly his set piece. "You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with you. "When a magician casts a spell, he does not first mentally review the Major, Minor, Tertiary, and Quaternary Circumstances. He does not search his soul to determine the phase of the moon, and the nearest body of water, and the last time he wiped his ass. When he wishes to cast a spell he simply casts it. When he wishes to fly, he simply flies. When he wants the dishes done, they simply are. ~ Lev Grossman

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. ~ Chaim Potok

Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of "thinking in pure meanings." I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth - it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think about thinking. ~ Oliver Sacks

I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise. ~ Lev Grossman

If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods and not of men. Ten lives would not suffice Aristotle to assimilate all the knowledge that has been accumulated on earth since his death, and Alexander would perhaps be able to realize his dream and conquer the world. ~ Lev Shestov

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. ~ Lev Grossman

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness). ~ Lev Shestov

The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride. ~ Lev Grossman

If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his. ~ Lev Grossman

But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men be such giants as Plato and Aristotle? Does truth become more true because Aristotle blesses it, or does it become error because Plato curses it? Is it given men to judge the truths, to decide the fate of the truths? On the contrary, it is the truths which judge men and decide their fate and not men who rule over the truths. Men, the great as well as the small, are born and die, appear and disappear - but the truth remains. When no one had as yet begun to "think" or to "search," the truths which later revealed themselves to men already existed. And when men will have finally disappeared from the face of the earth, or will have lost the faculty of thinking, the truths will not suffer therefrom. ~ Lev Shestov

But it wasn't going to kill him. It wasn't sexy, but it was real, and that was what mattered now. No more fantasies - that was life after Fillory. ~ Lev Grossman

Honk!" he yelled. "Honk honk honk honk honk honk honk!"
His classmates agreed. ~ Lev Grossman

Ain't no one gonna tell you what's in your heart," he tells Lev. "You gotta find that out for yourself. ~ Neal Shusterman

Awesome axes," Josh said. "Where did you - " "Your mom gave them to me," Janet said. "After I fucked her." "Why - " "Because she enjoyed it so much. ~ Lev Grossman

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. ~ Neal Shusterman

But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind. ~ Lev Shestov

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them ... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity. ~ Alexander Calder

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. ~ Lev Grossman

Most of the students, and probably the faculty, were ambivalent about the whole idea of Disciplines. They were socially divisive, the theory behind them was weak, and everybody ended up studying pretty much the same curriculum anyway, so what was the point? But it was traditional for every student to have one, so a Discipline every student would have. Alice called it her magic bat mitzvah. ~ Lev Grossman

Fuck it, it was stupid. Theories about life were always bullshit. ~ Lev Grossman

Forgiveness isn't just for them, Calder. It's for you. Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it, in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act" -Lily ~ Anne Greenwood Brown

You think Candy Land is real?" Josh said. "'Cause I would ditch Fillory in a red-hot minute for that shit. Chocolate Swamp and all. And have you seen Princess Frostine?" "Maybe ~ Lev Grossman

You're cramming a few chance data points into a story that has nothing to do with reality. You need to take a giant step back. Take a deep breath. You're way off the reservation." Nobody ~ Lev Grossman

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. ~ Lev Grossman

We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot ~ Lev Grossman

One thing had always confused Quentin about the magic he read about in books: it never seemed especially hard to do. There were lots of furrowed brows and thick books and long white beards and whatnot, but when it came right down to it, you memorized the incantation - or you just read it off the page, if that was too much trouble - you collected the herbs, waved the wand, rubbed the lamp, mixed the potion, said the words - and just like that the forces of the beyond did your bidding. It was like making salad dressing or driving stick or assembling Ikea furniture - just another skill you could learn. It took some time and effort, but compared to doing calculus, say, or playing the oboe - well, there really was no comparison. Any idiot could do magic. ~ Lev Grossman

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming. ~ Lev Grossman

All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen. ~ Neal Shusterman

I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began. ~ Lev Grossman

Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it. ~ Lev Grossman

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it. ~ Lev Grossman