Fillory's Quotes

#1. The year since then had been peaceful and prosperous, and in some ways the mood was lighter in the castle with Josh and Poppy installed as King and Queen in place of Quentin and Julia, Fillory's brooders-in-chief.

Lev Grossman

#2. For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Joseph Epstein

#3. Janet was in charge of relations with foreign powers - Quentin called her Fillory Clinton.

Lev Grossman

#4. 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

#5. A Fillory without a god. It was a radical notion. But he thought about it, and it didn't seem like a terrible one. They would be on their own this time - the kings, the queens, the people, the animals, the spirits, the monsters. They'd have to decide what was right and just and fair for themselves.

Lev Grossman

#6. Its composure thoroughly disrupted, the little treelet, the picture of arboreal distress, let its branches droop a little, and its green birch leaves fluttered anxiously.

Lev Grossman

#7. I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

Kate Bosworth

#8. The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

Bob Fosse

#9. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

Simon Garfield

#10. Whether or not he was in it, whether or not he could see or touch it, he'd thought there would always be a FIllory out there somewhere. He loved knowing it was there. It anchored his sense of happiness, the way a distant stockpile of gold might underwrite the value of a paper bill.

Lev Grossman

#11. Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

Lev Grossman

#12. As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like Fillory, like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing to know.

Lev Grossman

#13. Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has to do is behave honorably and bravely and all will be well. What a lesson to teach young children. What a way to prepare them for the rest of their lives.

Lev Grossman

#14. Everything people forget about ends up there one day, they said. Toys, tables, whole houses. And people end up there too. They get forgotten as well.

Lev Grossman

#15. 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

#16. There's no getting away from yourself. Not even in Fillory.

Lev Grossman

#17. The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Theodor Adorno

#18. I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

Roddy Doyle

#19. 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