# Quote — Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

> This was a double game: he was trying to save his childhood, to preserve it and trap it in amber, but to do that he was calling on things that partook of the world beyond childhood, whose touch would leave him even less innocent than he already was. What would that make him? Neither a child nor an adult, neither innocent nor wise. Perhaps that is what a monster is.

- Author: [Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md)
- Book: [The Magician's Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians-land.md)
- Page: 232
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lev_Grossman#The_Magician's_Land_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians-land/this-was-a-double

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