"When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his auntâ€™s house and slip through into Fillory...itâ€™s like heâ€™s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better."

-- Lev Grossman

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“A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.”
“I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.”
“I hope his breath wasn't too bad for 'Bron.'”
“I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.”
“I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.”
“God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved.Â If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness?Â All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea.Â If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator.Â Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.”
“Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.”
“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.”

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