“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
“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
“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
“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
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friendship 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
“But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.” — Carrie Ryan Life 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
“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
“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
“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
“When you're young you have such expectations of each other. So many needs. And when you're older..." He shrugs. "You want someone… — Carrie Ryan Different people Copy Share Image
“Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To… — Carrie Ryan 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
“Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Those days back there, in the house. That is my world. That is my truth," he says. "That is my ocean.” — Carrie Ryan Ocean Copy Share Image
