“Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be the best parts of life,” — Carrie Ryan Failure Copy Share Image
“Fin threw up his hands in frustration. "Marrill, I don't even have a pardon. Now is not the time to be begging… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“That's what I've started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.” — Carrie Ryan Education Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I'm a storm inside and the waves of it can be seen in my eyes.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“I let the sobs overtake me then. This was not the way I imagined my life.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to… — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“You think you want love, Mary. You think it is this beautiful gift that does nothing but fill you and make you… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“[In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their… — Carrie Ryan Death and dying 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
“I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will make mistakes… — Carrie Ryan Failure Copy Share Image
“I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved… — Carrie Ryan Death Copy Share Image
“But I don't know how to tell him all this. That I'm scared and I don't know how to be normal. I'm… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“I can’t compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other …” She sighs.… — Carrie Ryan Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Every day, the pain of that moment has scored through me. The humiliation and anger and misery and rejection. So many emotions… — Carrie Ryan 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
“I imagine that's what it must have been like to ride the roller coaster back in the before time. One moment teetering… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Keď spoznáš lásku ... láska je to, vďaka čomu hodno žiť. Keď s ňou každý deň žiješ. Zobúdzaš sa s ňou, držíš… — Carrie Ryan Love Copy Share Image
“I know that to you everything has changed for the worse over the last weeks. But for me..." Elias pauses. rests his… — Carrie Ryan Death 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
“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
“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
“Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for… — 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 Copy Share Image
“How did he change? What was he like before?" ... "He was happy before.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“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
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.” — Carrie Ryan Childhood 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
“Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image