But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium.
“If youre smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”
“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.”
“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.”
“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.”
“Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to...”
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just...”
“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”
“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”