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21 " When you know love . . . that's what makes life worth it. "
― Carrie Ryan , The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)
22 " 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? "
23 " We are our own memory-keepers and we have failed ourselves. It is like that game we played in school as children. Sitting in a circle, one student whispers a phrase into another student’s ear and the phrase is passed around until the last student in the circle repeats what she hears, only to find out it is nothing like what it is supposed to be.This is our life now. "
24 " That's just the way life is. Some days you wake up and the beach is clear and you forget about everything that surrounds us. And some days you wake up and it looks like this. That's the nature of the tides. "
25 " Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe. "
26 " As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use. "
27 " 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. "
28 " ...[F]inding the end of the path [is] not quite as important as the journey to getting there. "
29 " I need him with an urgency that I cannot escape. "
30 " He places his hands over mine, the feeling so warm and familiar. 'Those days back there, in the house. That is my world. That is my truth,' he says. 'That is my ocean. "
31 " We are our own memory-keepers, and we have failed ourselves. "
32 " Those days back there, in the house. That is my world. That is my truth," he says. "That is my ocean. "
33 " I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true. "
34 " My mother use to tell me about the ocean. "
35 " I let the sobs overtake me then. This was not the way I imagined my life. "
36 " In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God. "
37 " Now that I've said this, I can't help but say more, can't help but speak the words that have been gathering in my head like dark clouds before the storm, building pressure and growing, and rolling over themselves in chaos. "
38 " There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of this world. It is terrifying and wonderful "
39 " I think about how fragile we are here - like fish in a glass bowl with darkness pressing in on every side. "
40 " Él pone sus manos encima de las mías, el sentimiento tan cálido y familiar. —Esos días atrás, allí en la casa. Ese era mi mundo. Ésa es mi verdad —dice—Ese es mi océano. "