Rebekah

“I read once about a kind of fungus that grows in trees. The fungus begins to encroach on the systems that carry water and nutrients up from the roots to the branches. It disables them one by one―it crowds them out. Soon, the fungus―and only the fungus―is carrying the water, and the chemicals, and everything else the tree needs to survive. At the same time it is decaying the tree slowly from within, turning it minute by minute to rot.
That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium