Stefan Đurđević

“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're really quick and take this ring and put it in that volcano over there everything will be fine.

"But in real life that guy never turns up. He's never there. He's busy handing out advice in the next universe over. In 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. There's no answers in the back of the book.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“When the change comes, I ask only that you know it for what it is, and be aware. For the true magician there is no very clear line between what lies inside the mind and what lies outside it. If you desire something, it will become substance. If you despise it, you will see it destroyed. A master magician is not much different from a child or a madman in that respect. It takes a very clear head and a very strong will to operate once you are in that place. And you will find out very quickly whether or not you have that clarity and that strength.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Ichigo… I hate rain. It rains in this world too. When you’re upset, the skies grow cloudy. When you’re sad, it rains. I can’t stand it. I wonder if you can grasp…the terror of being rained on in this lonely world. To be able to hold back the rain…I’ll give you everything I have. Should you place your trust in me…I won’t let any rain fall on this world. Believe me… you aren’t fighting alone… Ichigo!”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 13

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land