“...[F]inding the end of the path [is] not quite as important as the journey to getting there.” — Carrie Ryan Journey 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
“-you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything changes.” — Carrie Ryan Change Copy Share Image
“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“... If you never try to see [someone] for who they are, then you don't love them enough.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“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
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and… — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 just sat there, staring out towards the darkness of the ocean and the starlight flashing off the crests of the waves… — Carrie Ryan 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 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
“We are our own memory-keepers and we have failed ourselves. It is like that game we played in school as children. Sitting… — Carrie Ryan Children 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
“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
“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 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
“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 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 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 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
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