“She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“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
“Sometiems it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold onto most.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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 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 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
“He stares at the two girls. Two broken bodies that moments before had been whole. He did this. He helped to break… — Carrie Ryan 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,' Jed says. I'm thrown over his shoulder and I can feel how his body shakes and I know that he… — 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 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 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 Earth 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
“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
“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
“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
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friend Copy Share Image
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.” — Carrie Ryan Childhood Copy Share Image
“As long as there’s hope and love in this world, there will always be the living” — Carrie Ryan Hope Copy Share Image
“Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” — 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
“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.” — Carrie Ryan 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
