Carrie Ryan Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.

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

[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.

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

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?