118 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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