“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
“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
“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
“The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple… — Carrie Ryan Death Copy Share Image
“His voice in my mind is soft, just out of reach like a spent echo. I wonder if these memories are worth… — Carrie Ryan Memories Copy Share Image
“I hold my breath, waiting for her touch to bring me comfort. And then I realize that that's been my problem all… — Carrie Ryan 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 Build 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 Crying 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape… — Carrie Ryan Bitten 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 Children 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
“—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 presses his lips to my jaw, to the corner of my mouth, to my ear. "I promise I'll find you again,"… — Carrie Ryan Ll Remember 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
“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 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 Map-to-everywhere 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
“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
“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 Scenic-route Copy Share Image
“I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at… — Carrie Ryan Leaving 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
“What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain and loss?… — Carrie Ryan Pain and loss Copy Share Image
“...I realized that life isn't something to be scared of. That you don't have to hold on so tightly that you can't… — Carrie Ryan Breathe Copy Share Image
“Because I do not accept the hand of God; I do not believe in divine intervention or predestination. I cannot believe that… — Carrie Ryan Choice Copy Share Image
