# Quote — Lev Grossman, The Magician King

> He couldn’t ignore how conspicuously beautiful Venice was. People had been living here for what, a thousand years? More? God only knew whose crazy idea it was to build a city in the middle of a lagoon, but you couldn’t argue with the results.

- 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: 150
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magician-king/he-couldnt-ignore

## 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)