Elizabeth

“Half the mountains in the Northern Barrier Range had just erupted, blown their tops off like ripe pimples. She hadn’t even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes, like a drunk prom queen puking on her dress. Shit was getting geological, yo.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“But not even the end of the world was going to stop Janet from being a bitch. It was the principle of the thing.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“…and the rest of his life lay in front of him like a barren, meaningless postscript.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“I like dull. It lasts.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music