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“Love isn’t about happy endings where knowing every day from here on out will be full of sunshine and rainbows. Love is about obstacles, about travelling through life together despite them. Obstacles make us stronger.”
― R.K. Ryals, Deliverance

“If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story. This is by no means an uncomplicated tale about uncomplicated people. It is by no means sweet or light. This story is ugly. This story is complicated. This story is emotional. This story is tragic. This story is about discovery. It is about hope. It is about one girl’s perception of reality. It is about me, a girl named Peregrine Storke.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Even when we grow up, the child remains. It’s the child that shapes the adult. What happens to you when you are young shapes what you become later. Whether you think you belong here or not is beside the point. The little girl that drew Awkward still lives inside of you.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“because imperfections often hide true beauty.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“In truth, I don’t really know what I want to do or who I want to be. I just want the freedom to find out.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Sometimes it takes stepping away from everything to see the things that are wrong.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Singing River

“Bravery is being afraid of something and facing it anyway.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Acropolis

“There are no words big enough to describe grief. It’s an incredibly lonely, empty place, a large hole that swallows your soul and threatens to destroy it. It’s a dark place with no light that blinds you, deafens you, and crushes your spirit. It’s a place full of memories you’re afraid to lose.
I was in that place. No amount of tears washed away the loneliness. No amount of screams chased it away. There were simply memories, an avalanche of memories that I desperately needed to hold onto.
There was so much that death didn’t prepare me for. It didn’t prepare me for the storm that would break my will. ~Hawthorn”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Life isn't about getting what we want. It's about turning the crappy cards we're dealt into a winning hand,”
― R.K. Ryals, The Acropolis

“In truth, it is evil beauty that is most devastating. For beauty isn’t always good and ugliness isn’t always bad. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn’t about being brave. True beauty isn’t about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“It was time for me to spread my broken wings, to let in the fear and the possibility of heartache. My heart knew what it meant to be broken. It wasn’t breaking my heart I was afraid of. It was healing.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“It isn’t about being awkward. It’s about not being ashamed to be awkward. It’s about embracing what makes us different. Perfection and Stereotype are threats to that.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“There's only so much I can do aside from locking him in his room or super gluing a condom to his penis”
― R.K. Ryals, The Singing River

“There’s nothing wrong with emotional scars. Sometimes those are deeper than physical ones.â€� I”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven’t done enough in life to be considered living.â€� ~Peregrine Storke~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“There are no words big enough to describe grief. It’s an incredibly lonely, empty place, a large hole that swallows your soul and threatens to destroy it. It’s a dark place with no light that blinds you, deafens you, and crushes your spirit. It’s a place full of memories you’re afraid to lose. ~Hawthorne”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“You can do anything, Hawthorne. I won’t be leaving. Not really. People don’t die, we pass into memory. I’ll live through you, through your heart and your mind. That’s the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.â€� I glanced at Elspeth, my gaze soft. “Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages... A reader never walks away from her own story.”
― R.K. Ryals, Fist of the Furor

“My fingers pressed against the paper’s blue lines. They were like veins, those lines. Straight, perfect veins waiting for the words that would breathe oxygen into them. “I”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Do something for me,â€� I whispered. “Quit fighting. It’s okay to let go now. It’s okay to rest. For my sake.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Maybe love could just be a moment, the kind that teaches rather than robs.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“I look into the eyes of the world, and what do I see?
I see the eyes of the world looking back at me.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Singing River

“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.â€� ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“And we lived awkwardly ever after â€� The End”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Truth was, life had taught me that words were better spoken when they meant something.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“Pain doesn’t answer questions the same way twice. Pain will tell you a lie, and then keep on filling you with varying untruths until you’re left with agony. It only makes you hate yourself rather than giving you a solution.”
― R.K. Ryals, City in Ruins

“Books never die.”
― R.K. Ryals, Mark of the Mage

“written knowledge only goes so far. Naivety was a whole different kind of senselessness.”
― R.K. Ryals, Mark of the Mage

“Feelings are fast. Try to outrun them, and they catch you. ~Hawthorne”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff