Ransom Riggs

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

— Ransom Riggs

“It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.”

— Ransom Riggs

“What're you going to do", he said, "pollinate it to death?”

— Ransom Riggs

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

— Ransom Riggs

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

— Ransom Riggs

... I'm thirsty as a Bloody Mermaid!

— Ransom Riggs

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

— Ransom Riggs

“polite persons do not take their supper in the nude!”

— Ransom Riggs

“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

“Everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

— Ransom Riggs

“Jacob, inspector of shadows, miraculous interpreter of squirmy gut feelings, seer and slayer of real and actual monsters—”

— Ransom Riggs

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

— Ransom Riggs

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

— Ransom Riggs

“You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied”

— Ransom Riggs

“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob”

— Ransom Riggs

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into…

— Ransom Riggs

“Addison sighed. "All this fleeing," he said disdainfully, as if he were a gourmand and someone had offered him a limp square…

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“We love you, too, Jake, and if it's drugs or whatever it is, we don't care. We'll get you right again. Like…

— Ransom Riggs

“As we passed he returned grimly to his task, though his arthritic hands could hardly close around the stick. There was something…

— Ransom Riggs

“I came to enjoy communicating by hand. There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked…

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“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

“They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn't that…

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“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…

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“Golan swiveled his head back and forth, nervously sizing us up. Is she serious? For a moment he seemed genuinely frightened, but…

— Ransom Riggs

“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more…

— Ransom Riggs

“I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want you…

— Ransom Riggs

I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes…

— Ransom Riggs

“It was unconscious, immobilized, totally vulnerable. It would’ve been easy to climb onto the ice and drive the point of an icicle…

— Ransom Riggs

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos…

— Ransom Riggs

“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots…

— Ransom Riggs

“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That…

— Ransom Riggs

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in…

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“I jogged along the deck to the stern, tracking the shipwreck as it disappeared beneath our wake. Then, just as I was…

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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how…

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“I thought about how my great-grandparents had starved to death. I thought about their wasted bodies being fed to incinerators because people…

— Ransom Riggs

“But don’t the wights get caught?” I said. “I mean, if they’re helping murder people, you’d think—” “Some do,” Emma said. “Wager…

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“She put her arms around me again and we held each other for a long moment, her head on my shoulder, breath…

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“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally,…

— Ransom Riggs

“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal…

— Ransom Riggs

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

— Ransom Riggs