“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I didn’t want to—more than anything I did—but the idea of kissing her two feet from a box of… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I wanted to thank you," I said. She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?"… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“If. 'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally,… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more black and… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“It's not about destiny but i do think there's balance in the world and forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“ ‘You don’t strike me as a quitter.’ ‘Then you don’t know me very well,’ I replied.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“I came to enjoy communicating by hand. There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“Yo no sabía como llamar a aquello que sucedía entre nosotros, pero me gustaba. Me proporcionaba una sensación estúpida, frágil y agradable.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share
