Who would’ve thought doing nothing all the time would turn out to be so damn tiring? - Lev Grossman

She’d gotten good at coaxing. If all else failed she had the power of the bathroom handjob, and she wielded it with an iron fist.

As he got deeper into it he began to run into a lot of mathematics, which he had to work out with a pencil and paper—you couldn’t do magical equations with computers, they just spat out inconsistent answers before hanging completely. Magical math had to be thought through with a brain.

He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook.