“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!” — Ransom Riggs Christmas Copy Share Image
“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.” — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
“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… — Ransom Riggs Balance Copy Share Image
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.” — Ransom Riggs Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded… — Ransom Riggs Grief Copy Share Image
“Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully. "We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties,… — Ransom Riggs Funny Copy Share Image
“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.” — Ransom Riggs Gratitude Copy Share Image
“He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
“..."I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one… — Ransom Riggs Descriptive-prose Copy Share Image
“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Human psyche Copy Share Image
“I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices (...), the object… — Ransom Riggs Death Copy Share Image
“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.… — Ransom Riggs Accidents 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 Love Copy Share Image
“seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what “some time” meant: hours and hours. “Then I’ll go find… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of… — Ransom Riggs Bad memories Copy Share Image
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“You're right, Dad. Dr. Golan did help me. But that doesn't mean he has to control every aspect of my life. I… — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why it was so important for her to prove to a stranger that we were good-hearted, when we knew… — Ransom Riggs Nature Copy Share Image
“I knew exactly what was about to happen. It was part of this pathetic cycle my dad was caught in. He'd get… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“should spot us from the air?” said Hugh. “They won’t. We’ll be careful.” “And if they’re waiting for us in the town?”… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.” — Ransom Riggs Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Then what became of the suul you drew from him?” said Miss Peregrine.” — Ransom Riggs Peregrine Copy Share Image