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21 " Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving.""But they're dead," he says"Yeah. That means they don't have to remember anything."Elias shakes his head. "That means they can't ever love."I snort. "So they don't know loss. "
― Carrie Ryan , The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)
22 " Always," I tell him. He catches his breath and I lean away until I can see his eyes. "I'm scared of losing my heart to you. But I think it's a risk I'm willing to take. "
23 " I catch my breath but he's not finished. "I love you, Annah. And if you're willing to risk everything to be with me, then I'm willing to risk everything to be with you. I'm going to keep fighting for you, every day of my life. If you'll have me. "
24 " Do you think the dead don’t know what they’ve lost? Don’t you ever wonder why they seek human flesh? That maybe it’s their way of believing again? Of living again—if even for that one pure moment that blood pulses inside their mouths? "
25 " But I don't know how to tell him all this. That I'm scared and I don't know how to be normal. I'm broken, just like him, and I'm not sure I can fix myself. "
26 " ...I realized that life isn't something to be scared of. That you don't have to hold on so tightly that you can't breathe. "
27 " Every day, the pain of that moment has scored through me. The humiliation and anger and misery and rejection. So many emotions that churn over me, always forcing me to feel it all fresh again and again - never in my life had I felt so ugly and unwanted. "
28 " We're the winners because we get to live. Because we get to survive. Despite the pain of this life, we get to feel. "
29 " I want to raise my hand to his cheek. I want to tell him it's okay. That it's pretty here in my head and it doesn't hurt. "
30 " As long as there’s hope and love in this world, there will always be the living "
31 " —En ese momento noté que había cometido el error más grande en mi vida. Noté que no soy nada sin ti. No tiene sentido estar vivo si no puedo amarte. "
32 " I've let the day-to-day existence of life blind me to dreams. "
33 " I much prefer the colors dancing in my mind. "
34 " The broken ones need someone to fight for them even harder, "
35 " Caring is a trait of the living. Not of the dead. "
36 " Is it always about the end and not about the beginning? Is it always about the conclusion and not about the path to it?" ... "I'm tired of paths ... Sometimes they lead nowhere. "
37 " And I realize that's the difference. I realize that I still have everything to lose. The possibility of my sister and Elias and Catcher and my future. I'd lose sunrises and stars and the feel of Catcher's heat against my lips. I'd miss the taste of snow and the smell of the first flower of spring. I'd miss laughing and crying and all the moments in between. "
38 " 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. "