Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

"It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast."

"If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love."

"It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast."

"But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins."