"Careful what you hunt," Julia said, "lest you catch it."
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"...that's not Fillory. Your kingdom ends here. Here you're a king, you're all-powerful. You're not king of any of that. Out there you're just Quentin. Are you sure that's going to be enough?"
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Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don't have anything worth giving.
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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their won story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
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Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
