We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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.
Lev GrossmanI always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?
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