“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 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 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 will always need you," I whisper. "All of this time I've waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?”
Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”
Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves“Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be thebest parts of life,”
Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves“The broken ones need someone to fight for them even harder.”
Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places“[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 Dead-Tossed Waves“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, The Forest of Hands and Teeth“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, The Forest of Hands and Teeth“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, The Dead-Tossed Waves“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.”
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