New York’s magical underground may have been limited, but the number and variety of its drinking… — Lev Grossman
New York’s magical underground may have been limited, but the number and variety of its drinking establishments was prodigious.
p. 227Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
He had no interest in TV anymore—it looked like an electronic puppet show to him, an artificial version of an imitation world that meant nothing to him anyway.
p. 167
“Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
“You can’t just decide to be happy.”
“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”
p. 333
He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping and uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters. It wasn’t something he had much practice at.
p. 41
