Quotes by Amy Kathleen Ryan

We do matter. To believe that our lives are meaningful is the essence of faith. We are not as large, or as bright, or as eternal as the stars, but we carry humankinds message of love across the galaxy. We are the first. We are the world makers. Our nourishment is hope. Like the tender reed shaking in the wind, we will reach up to a new sun.

There is a design working behind the curtain of the stars, and we are fulfilling it, drawn toward the future on the tide of time, toward our destiny as the first settlers of a new world.The room was still. He has them, she thought.

[Theres] one... thing I can tell you about human nature: beautiful people are the last ones you want to befriend. Beautiful people float through life thinking that its perfectly normal for others to gaze at them adoringly, and open doors for them, and defer to their opinion... Doesnt anyone understand that beautiful people are stupid? Thats why nature made them beautiful, so theyd have a chance at surviving in the wild. And how do they survive? They use people and then they drop people, and they float away on the currents of their own gorgeousness to the next poor girl who thinks that being friends with a beutiful person will somehow make her beautiful, too. Ive got news for you: Hanging around beautiful people just makes you uglier by comparison.