Famous Quotes by Lev Grossman

“It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.”

One of the most terrifying things in life is to give up the safety of certainty for the risk of the unknown.

What’s so great about reading is that it lets you live other lives without the messy consequences.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

The world is full of people who never quite get what they want. You can either fight that, or go with it.

There’s a kind of sadness that comes with growing up, with letting go of the stories you believed in as a child.

We all think that we are entitled to some kind of cosmic justice, but the truth is that life doesn’t work that way.

You can never be sure about what you know until you’ve seen it fall apart.

Hope is a funny thing. It’s not always about having everything turn out okay. It’s about believing that it will.

The truth is, you never know what you’re going to find when you dig into a book.

Sometimes it feels like the world is too big, and the only way to make it manageable is to shrink it down to something you can control.

The first step to being truly free is to stop pretending to be someone you’re not.

There are things that happen to us that we will never understand. And sometimes that's okay.

The thing about being human is that you always have the option to keep going, even when you don’t know why.

You can’t control everything, but you can control how you react to what happens.

Every hero is someone who has faced the darkness and come out the other side.

You can’t go back to how things were, not when you’ve tasted something more.

The best stories are the ones that make you forget you’re reading them.

The hardest part of being an adult is learning how to stop pretending everything’s okay.