It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
Lauren OliverWe are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.
Lauren Oliveri suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
Lauren OliverAnd even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.
Lauren Oliver