It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
Lev GrossmanIn our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.
Lev GrossmanThe danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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