118 Quotes by 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.

I know that to you everything has changed for the worse over the last weeks. But for me... ” Elias pauses. rests his forehead into the curve of my neck. “Before you my life was nothing but wandering and solitude and death. Now with you there’s possibility.” He pulls back until we’re looking into each other’s eyes. “I’m falling inn love with you, Gabrielle. Not with the person you used to be, but you.

Ironically, by struggling so hard to circumvent the prophecy of his death at the hand of his son, Laius became instrumental in its coming to pass.

At best Grey and his father lied because they were scared. And at worst they lied because they were somehow involved. Either way they lied and I intend to find out why. You can hate me if you want. You can blame me for all of this, for keeping the truth from you. You can help me, or you can leave. But the one thing you can’t do is stop me.

The bodies. Oh God, the bodies. And the blood and the screams and the smell of it all, like overripe peaches stuffed with pennies.

I am nothing except this: a girl reborn of the deep ocean silence, meant for nothing but vengeance.

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?

Habits die hard and absence doesn’t stop my fingers from searching.

And I wonder if that’s what my scars really are: proof that I’ve put myself back together again.