Quotes by Carrie Ryan

If your friend really cared about you he wouldnt let you take such risks.

Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things Ive wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

Its funny, most people think that revenge is a passionate affair, driven by rage and pain. But it cant be. Feelings such as those make you weak. They overwrite thought and cause reckless impulses that lead to poor decisions.

You think you want love, Mary. You think it is this beautiful gift that does nothing but fill you and make you whole. But you are wrong. Love can be cruel and ugly. It can become dark and cause the deepest pain.

I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.

Its as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.

[In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their lives, they tell me their pain...I cant struggle, I cant stop laughing, I cant resist these people who once were.

The broken ones need someone to fight for them even harder.

Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be thebest parts of life,

She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

I will always need you, I whisper. All of this time Ive waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?

Not all monsters are filled with darkness. She wanted him to understand this so badly that her voice trembled.He didnt even hesitate. This one is.She allowed herself a moment to admire Tommy, the way he stood so resolute, like a knight charging after the monster. He just didnt get that this fight wasnt his to wage.Exactly so, she finally said.Of course Tommy would think she talking to him. He exhaled as though relieved and the start of a smile eased the tension around his lips. By the time he realized that shed spoken the words to someone over his shoulder, it was already too late.

“Youre stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?”

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isnt old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh.”

“You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.”

“The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.”