That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that… - Lev Grossman

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Anyway, the mood he was in, Quentin was willing to take any position on any subject with anybody if it meant he could pick a fight.

Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it. Maybe it was all a game, that got crumpled up and thrown away at the end, but while you were here it was real.