“As long as there’s hope and love in this world, there will always be the living” — Carrie Ryan Hope Copy Share Image
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.” — Carrie Ryan Friend 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
“Sometiems it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold onto most.” — Carrie Ryan 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
“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
“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
“Do you think the dead don’t know what they’ve lost? Don’t you ever wonder why they seek human flesh? That maybe it’s… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Always," I tell him. He catches his breath and I lean away until I can see his eyes. "I'm scared of losing… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“He is always there for her,always waiting. The most constant companion anyone could pray for. One of these days she will return… — Carrie Ryan Companion Copy Share Image
“I catch my breath but he's not finished. "I love you, Annah. And if you're willing to risk everything to be with… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“But then he whispers, "It will be okay, Mary." He pulls my head down to his chest and he wraps both his… — Carrie Ryan 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 Copy Share Image
“I want to sleep, I want dreams to pull me from this world and make me forget. To stop the memories from… — Carrie Ryan Dreams 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
“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
“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
“Wait," Fin said, puzzling through the words. "That was a seed, not a secret." "Of course it was." It sounded annoyed, at… — Carrie Ryan 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 Baby Copy Share Image
“It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live… — Carrie Ryan Death 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 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
“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
“She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Magic is just potential for creation. It follows no rules and breaks them all” — Carrie Ryan Creation 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
“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 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
“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
“We forget that the rest of live can be just as dangerous. I think about how fragile we are here-- like fish… — Carrie Ryan Darkness 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
“Would you leave your world for me?" he asks. "I might." she tells him. She wonders how the world ever fell apart… — 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 Hope and love 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
“—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
“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 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
