Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves

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

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

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

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

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