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The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2) QUOTES

The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2) QUOTES

1 " You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

2 " I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

3 " Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

6 " [In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their lives, they tell me their pain...I can't struggle, I can't stop laughing, I can't resist these people who once were. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

7 " Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be the
best parts of life, "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

8 " She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

9 " Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for nothing? "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

11 " The morning sun burned away the mist so the valley below is now clear. The scope of what I see drowns out every other sense: There's no river, no water. Instead, hundreds of feet below the bridge the ground shifts and writhes. At first I think maybe it's a field of some sort but then individual colors begin to pull apart.

And all at once I understand what it is. Like a river flooding its banks, the entire valley is full of Mudo. The sound is not that of a raging waterfall but the pounding of two hundred million feet. The moans of a hundred million mouths. They pour through the valley, more people than I have ever seen. More people than I ever thought could have existed in one world. And they sense me, reach for me but are trapped by the mountains. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

12 " It's never been a perfect world. It's never going to be. It's going to be hard and scary, and if you're lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

13 " I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that's why she always struggled with God. And I think that's why she also struggled with love. She couldn't touch it. She couldn't hold on to it and make sure it never changed. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

14 " We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist … it’s having people remember who we are. We’re terrible at that in this world. At remembering. At passing it on. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

15 " -you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything changes. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

16 " He presses his lips to my jaw, to the corner of my mouth, to my ear. "I promise I'll find you again," he whispers. "I promise you I'll remember you. And I promise I'll love you. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

17 " I know that to you everything has changed for the worse over the last weeks. But for me..." Elias pauses. rests his forehead into the curve of my neck. "Before you my life was nothing but wandering and solitude and death. Now with you there's possibility." He pulls back until we're looking into each other's eyes. "I'm falling inn love with you, Gabrielle. Not with the person you used to be, but you. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

18 " Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen?" I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough? "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

19 " But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

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

― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)