“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.” — Carrie Ryan Childhood Copy Share Image
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friend Copy Share Image
“And for a Quay thief, there was only one place to go to learn anything about anything: Ad and Tad’s pie shop.” — Carrie Ryan Middle-grade Copy Share Image
“But that's what love is like when it's fresh and new. It's fire and thunder and heat.” — Carrie Ryan Love Copy Share Image
“In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God.” — Carrie Ryan Death Copy Share Image
“We’re set in motion and then we spend our lives maintaining that motion, but to what end? For what purpose?” — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to know a truth in your head but another to understand it in your heart.” — Carrie Ryan Truth Copy Share Image
“But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“It’s not always about tomorrow and the day after that—what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes… — Carrie Ryan Laine-s-fave Copy Share Image
“It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can… — Carrie Ryan Eternity Copy Share Image
“It's the most beautiful thing in the world." he says, "I just..." He pauses and looks back into the fire. "I just… — Carrie Ryan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You… — Carrie Ryan Cry Copy Share Image
“I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead… — Carrie Ryan Parenting Copy Share Image
“He stares at the two girls. Two broken bodies that moments before had been whole. He did this. He helped to break… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“That's just the way life is. Some days you wake up and the beach is clear and you forget about everything that… — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“Wait," Fin said, puzzling through the words. "That was a seed, not a secret." "Of course it was." It sounded annoyed, at… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth… — Carrie Ryan Baby Copy Share Image
“It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live… — Carrie Ryan Death Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving." "But they're… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life isn't about the end. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that-what we achieve over the years and… — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“There's one detail I've always remembered: He told me how long it takes the light from the stars to reach through space… — Carrie Ryan Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I realize that this is the way the world works. If I could stop the spin, stop the rotation, I would have… — Carrie Ryan Long ago Copy Share Image
“Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“What matters is what we do with the life we have."-The Dark and Hollow Places” — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“How did he change? What was he like before?" ... "He was happy before.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“It's never been a perfect world. It's never going to be. It's going to be hard and scary, and if you're lucky,… — Carrie Ryan Inspiring Copy Share Image
“I know in my life there have been breaches, but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the… — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“Is it Bub?" Stavik cried after them. "Or Cobble? Louis-Josef? Tog the Log?" Fin shook his head to himself as he mounted… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet,… — Carrie Ryan Death and dying Copy Share Image
“He presses his lips to my jaw, to the corner of my mouth, to my ear. "I promise I'll find you again,"… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Would you leave your world for me?" he asks. "I might." she tells him. She wonders how the world ever fell apart… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight… — Carrie Ryan Hope and love Copy Share Image
“—En ese momento noté que había cometido el error más grande en mi vida. Noté que no soy nada sin ti. No… — Carrie Ryan Amor Copy Share Image
“He places his hands over mine, the feeling so warm and familiar. 'Those days back there, in the house. That is my… — Carrie Ryan Ocean Copy Share Image
“We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist … it’s having people… — Carrie Ryan Memory Copy Share Image
“Now that I've said this, I can't help but say more, can't help but speak the words that have been gathering in… — Carrie Ryan Dark clouds Copy Share Image
“Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“I know,' Jed says. I'm thrown over his shoulder and I can feel how his body shakes and I know that he… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
