“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.’”
More from Lev Grossman
“You’re complicated. You need someone who gets that about you.”
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain…”
“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did:…”
“We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.”