«Король Волшебников» kitabından sitatlar, səhifə 2

"I don't think they can change their minds. When you get to that level of power and knowledge and perfection, the question of what you should do next gets increasingly obvious. Everything is very rule-governed. All you can ever do in any given situation is the most gloriously perfect thing, and there's only one of them. Finally there aren't any choices left to make at all."

"You're saying the gods don't have free will."

"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals."

In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity'. We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

They gave him a lot of freedom and never asked him for much. Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don't have anything worth giving.

The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything is.

"I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot."

“What,” Julia said, “the fuck.”

“Holy shit,” said Failstaff.

“This is exceeding expectations,” Asmo said.

То, что Квентин влюблен в нее, а она не чувствует к нему никакого влечения, угнетало ее, но не так чтобы очень.

Взрослые не должны говорить «так нечестно»… хотя это и в самом деле нечестно.

У Квентина зародилась теория, что эта горка придумана для унижения. Как будто все, чем ты жил, о чем мыслил, было просто детской игрой. Смерть никого не уважает и хочет, чтобы ты это понял.

- Ты хочешь сказать, что боги не обладают свободой воли.

- То есть способностью совершать ошибки? Ею обладаем только мы, смертные.