Carrie Ryan Quotes

I imagine that's what it must have been like to ride the roller coaster back in the before time. One moment teetering at the top, the world laid out before you and the rush of life filling your lungs. . . and then the plummet. The lack of control. That's what I've started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.

I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.

I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.

Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

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

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape from the house."
My limbs go weak, everything inside me folding in collapsing on itself.
"I was already dead," he says, opening his eyes.

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 isn't 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.

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