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"The war we are losing is with time."
Lev GrossmanThis was a double game: he was trying to save his childhood, to preser — Lev Grossman
"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."
Lev Grossman
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Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist who wrote the Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. His recent work includes the children's book The Silver Arrow and its sequel, The Golden Swift; The Bright Sword, a reimagining of the King Arthur le
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