“...[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 want to raise my hand to his cheek. I want to tell him it's okay. That it's pretty here in my… — Carrie Ryan Doesn Hurt Copy Share Image
“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.” — Carrie Ryan Broken things Copy Share Image
“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.” — Carrie Ryan Life experience 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
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friendship Copy Share Image
“Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.” — Carrie Ryan Drown 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
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and… — Carrie Ryan Feels 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 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
“You kids take your time," the Naysayer called from above them. "Me an'the oncoming apocalypse will just hang out and get to… — Carrie Ryan Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“You think you want love, Mary. You think it is this beautiful gift that does nothing but fill you and make you… — Carrie Ryan Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
“So many memories roll through me and I realize that this is who we are: memories and shared experiences. This is what… — Carrie Ryan Memories 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 think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were… — Carrie Ryan Afraid to love Copy Share Image
“Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen?" I ask. I think of all the times… — Carrie Ryan Regret 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
“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
“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
“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
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.” — Carrie Ryan Childhood 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
“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 Alive Copy Share Image
“Sometiems it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold onto most.” — Carrie Ryan Harry Copy Share Image
“How did he change? What was he like before?" ... "He was happy before.” — Carrie Ryan Catcher 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 Hanging Copy Share Image
“But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.” — Carrie Ryan Life 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