Quotes About Brakebills

#1. He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected.

Lev Grossman

#2. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Lev Grossman

#3. His first two months at Brakebills spun by, and soon red and gold leaves were scattering across the Sea, as if they were being pushed by invisible brooms - which possibly they were? - and the flanks of the slow-moving topiary beasts in the Maze showed streaks of color. Quentin

Lev Grossman

#4. Mom just got you a babysitter! She had to pay her a ton to stay.

Renee Carter

#5. The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Joanna Trollope

#6. I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#7. Ot-yebis' Eugene," Mira says, her face getting flushed. Whatever she just said, Eugene takes a breath and stops talking.

Dima Zales

#8. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.

Nadia Hashimi

#9. There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.

Bill Gates

#10. All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us."

Thomas Keating