"One of the secrets Martin must have learned down below the Northern Marsh was how not to care about some things, and …"

"Up through around twenty-five he’d never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulatin…"

"Even on the first day we invaded Plover’s house we sensed the conundrum that Americans are faced with in England: the…"

"When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won’t live in a wasteland. I’d rather die in pa…"

"Now all I can see is how simple he made everything sound. Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has …"

"We each of us on our own found ways to get on without Fillory. The real world was not as fantastical and brightly col…"

"She wondered if later on she would wish she hadn’t looked. That was one thing about books: once you read them they co…"

"She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it…"

"This was a double game: he was trying to save his childhood, to preserve it and trap it in amber, but to do that he w…"

"Quentin thought about how wrong things had gone. Things so often went wrong. Was it him? Was he making the same mista…"