Quotes from Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

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.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

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.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

If you're smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.