The power to create order is one thing. The power to destroy is another. Always they are in balance. But it is easier to destroy than to create, and … - Lev Grossman

New York’s magical underground may have been limited, but the number and variety of its drinking establishments was prodigious.

Quinton didn’t know exactly how to put everything that was ridiculous about that idea in a single sentence.

But now that the ripened fruit of all that preparation was right in front of him he suddenly lost any desire for it. He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore. He had it all the time. It was one of the few things he could depend on.