Quentin had never met anybody so staggeringly and unapologetically affected. - Lev Grossman

You want to know what it’s like to be a demon? Imagine knowing, always and forever, that you are right, and that everyone and everything else is wrong.

To be honest, Quentin felt superior to anybody who still messed around with magic. They could delude themselves if they liked, those self-indulgent magical mandarins, but he’d outgrown that stuff. He wasn’t a magician anymore, he was a man, and a man took responsibility for his actions.

The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.