" Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings
in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a
tremor, a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration. The flood that
rushed into Portland twenty years ago after nearly two months of straight
rain, that hurtled up beyond the labs and damaged more than a thousand
houses, swept up tires and trash bags and old, smelly shoes and floated
them through the streets like prizes, that left a thin film of green mold
behind, a stench of rotting and decay that didn’t go away for months,
began with a trickle of water, no wider than a finger, lapping up onto the
docks.
And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a
thought. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)