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The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3) QUOTES

The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

2 " You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before? "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

5 " 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. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

7 " For showing me what I could have been if I hadn't turned cold and dark and hollow. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

8 " How did he change? What was he like before?" ...

"He was happy before. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

9 " 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. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

10 " What matters is what we do with the life we have. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

11 " 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. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

12 " It all seems so worthless. Such a waste of lives. We've spent hundreds of years since the Return buffering the Dark City and trying to maintain it - scraping out a life that will soon be wiped out.

And what of the rest of the world that's already fallen? Stars blinking away, their light slowly fading? Somewhere out there a star's just dying and we'll never know about it. Somewhere another's being born whose light we'll never see.

The Earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one day will drop into nothing ness: no humans left for them to scent, no flesh for them to crave. Everything-all of us-will simply cease to be. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

14 " It's one thing to know a truth in your head but another to understand it in your heart. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

15 " Life is never that simple. And the fact that it's not that simple to you means only one thing: You're still alive. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

16 " 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. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

17 " I stare at the way the tracks of her tears break across her jaw and along her neck, at how it looks like her face, once shattered, has been carefully put back together. And I wonder if that’s what my scars really are: proof that I’ve put myself back together again. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

18 " I feel as though I'm a storm inside and the waves of it can be seen in my eyes. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

19 " The earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one day will drop into nothingness: no humans left for them to scent, no flesh for them to crave. Everything- all of us will simply cease to be.

They'll find peace only when we're all dead. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

20 " I just sat there, staring out towards the darkness of the ocean and the starlight flashing off the crests of the waves and knew that we were all part of this bigger whole. That somehow I mattered in the course of things and a part of me would always have left its mark on this world. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)