118 Quotes by Carrie Ryan

I can’t compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other …” She sighs. “It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.

The more we lose, the more we become the survivors.

Sometimes life isn't about the end. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that-what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes it's about today...Any of us could die tomorrow regardless of the horde. We could get sick or be injured or anything else. That's the risk we take waking up each morning and stepping outside.

She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans.

... If you never try to see [someone] for who they are, then you don't love them enough.

What use are experiences if we’re not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain and loss? What is the point of living if we have to always insulate ourselves?

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

But then he whispers, “It will be okay, Mary.” He pulls my head down to his chest and he wraps both his arms around me and all I can think is why can’t life just stop here and now and leave us be in this moment.

There’s one detail I’ve always remembered: He told me how long it takes the light from the stars to reach through space to us. How most of the points of light we see actually no longer exist. We’re just seeing the remnants of what was – ghosts of what use to be.