“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.” — Carrie Ryan Childhood Copy Share Image
“Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” — Carrie Ryan Survival Copy Share Image
“Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.” — Carrie Ryan Every morning Copy Share Image
“As long as there’s hope and love in this world, there will always be the living” — Carrie Ryan Hope 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
“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
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friendship Copy Share Image
“Life is never that simple. And the fact that it's not that simple to you means only one thing: You're still alive.” — Carrie Ryan Life 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 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
“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
“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
“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 The-forest-of-hands-and-teeth 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 Build 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
“—En ese momento noté que había cometido el error más grande en mi vida. Noté que no soy nada sin ti. No… — Carrie Ryan Love Copy Share Image
“Sure," Fin said. "Let's say we remember that." Marrill shushed him. "I actually do remember it," she giggled. "FakecoughSUCKUPfakecough," Fin said to… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“They're endless, stretching beyond the horizon and spreading around me like forever. They heave and moan, frothing over each other, cresting and… — Carrie Ryan Beyond the horizon Copy Share Image
“The earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one… — Carrie Ryan Nature 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 Happy ending 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
“It's as if everything shifts around me, the pieces that didn't fit together finally twisting until they match. The terror that had… — Carrie Ryan 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
“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could… — Carrie Ryan Alone Copy Share Image
“Two days ago, the Preserve received a curious visitor. Our logbook shows the signature of a Ms. Notah Reelnaym, hailing from the… — Carrie Ryan Humour Copy Share Image
“You know how you can think you know someone or think you know them but maybe you only know them one way?"… — Carrie Ryan Friendship Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, all I can think about are all the things I don't know about him. All the things I never had time… — Carrie Ryan Enough time Copy Share Image
“The morning sun burned away the mist so the valley below is now clear. The scope of what I see drowns out… — Carrie Ryan Carrie-ryan Copy Share Image
“Did you know that when we were kids Cass used to tell me your stories? She used to laugh at you. Not… — Carrie Ryan Hesitation Copy Share Image
“It all seems so worthless. Such a waste of lives. We've spent hundreds of years since the Return buffering the Dark City… — Carrie Ryan Dark city Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been trained by that siren. Before I could walk I knew the siren meant death. It meant… — Carrie Ryan Death Copy Share Image
