“In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God.” — Carrie Ryan Death 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
“Sometimes you have to do things you don't like in order to make a change in the world.” — Carrie Ryan Change Copy Share Image
“She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans.” — Carrie Ryan Forest-of-hands-and-teeth Copy Share Image
“We're the winners because we get to live. Because we get to survive. Despite the pain of this life, we get to… — Carrie Ryan Life Copy Share Image
“...[F]inding the end of the path [is] not quite as important as the journey to getting there.” — Carrie Ryan Journey Copy Share Image
“I will always need you," I whisper. "All of this time I've waited for you. And you were never coming for me.… — Carrie Ryan Love 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Dead 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 Wishing 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
“I just sat there, staring out towards the darkness of the ocean and the starlight flashing off the crests of the waves… — Carrie Ryan Mattered Copy Share Image
“I love you, Mary," he says, and that is when I let the tears come. The great heaving sobs of terror and… — Carrie Ryan Love Copy Share Image
“I stare at the way the tracks of her tears break across her jaw and along her neck, at how it looks… — Carrie Ryan Scars Copy Share Image
“It isn't the young men who call to her at night. It's the Forest. It's the whisper of the trees that there's… — Carrie Ryan Forest 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 Catcher 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
“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
“... If you never try to see [someone] for who they are, then you don't love them enough.” — Carrie Ryan Forest-of-hands-and-teeth Copy Share Image
“There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of this world. It is terrifying and wonderful” — Carrie Ryan Terrifying Copy Share Image
“That's what I've started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.” — Carrie Ryan Education Copy Share Image
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