# Quote — Lev Grossman, The Magician King

> Could the man really not have explained? Did his daughter really not understand what had happened? It didn’t add up. If they’d talked about it and figured things out it could have been a happy ending. People in fairy tales never just figured things out.

- Author: [Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md)
- Book: [The Magician King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king.md)
- Page: 95
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king/could-the-man

## More from this book

> You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Turn it around. What is advanced magic indistinguishable from? Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from the miraculous.

p. 316 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king/you-know-what.md)

> Specifically she was into dragons.
>
> Quentin suppose it was an extension of the general Australian preoccupation with fatally dangerous animals. Start with saltwater crocodiles and box jellyfish and it was just a hop, skip, and a jump up the food chain before you got to dragons.

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king/specifically-she-was.md)

> The dead didn’t mince words.

p. 348 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king/the-dead-didnt.md)