Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, unti…

Lev Grossman
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Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you. ✨ Lev Grossman (2009). The Magicians: A Novel, p.173, Penguin
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