Carrie Ryan Quotes

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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.

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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.

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.

~ Carrie Ryan

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.

~ Carrie Ryan

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart.

~ Carrie Ryan

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 with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it.

~ Carrie Ryan

Darkness grew where it would and took what it wanted. It staked its claim and never let go. And no one else could pry you free of it.

~ Carrie Ryan

Maybe if she'd invited him into the forest all those years ago, things would have ended differently. But she doubted it. Darkness grew where it would and took what it wanted. It staked its claim and never let go.And no one could pry you free of it.

~ Carrie Ryan

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.

~ Carrie Ryan

I know in my life there have been breaches, but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the memories that serve me no purpose.

~ Carrie Ryan

We're both just human. Nothing more. But also nothing less.

~ Carrie Ryan

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are the only ones left -- who will know our stories then? Who will remember those?

~ Carrie Ryan

Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.

~ Carrie Ryan

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.

~ Carrie Ryan

If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.

~ Carrie Ryan

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 I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

~ Carrie Ryan

It's funny, most people think that revenge is a passionate affair, driven by rage and pain. But it can't be. Feelings such as those make you weak. They overwrite thought and cause reckless impulses that lead to poor decisions.

~ Carrie Ryan

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.

~ Carrie Ryan

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.

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

[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 can't struggle, I can't stop laughing, I can't resist these people who once were.

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

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

~ Carrie Ryan

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.' She wanted him to understand this so badly that her voice trembled.He didn't 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 didn't get that this fight wasn't 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 she'd spoken the words to someone over his shoulder, it was already too late.

~ Carrie Ryan