“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.” — Ransom Riggs Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.” — Ransom Riggs Gratitude 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
“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
“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!” — Ransom Riggs Humorous 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
“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
If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into… — Ransom Riggs Book 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
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 Able Copy Share Image
“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That… — Ransom Riggs Children Copy Share Image
“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 Icicle 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 Love Copy Share Image
“I came to enjoy communicating by hand. There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked… — Ransom Riggs Enjoy Communicating 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 Inspiration Copy Share Image
“Then Bronwyn said, "I believe in you, Jacob. I haven't known you too long, but I feel I know your heart, and… — Ransom Riggs Too long 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
“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
Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in… — Ransom Riggs Accepted Copy Share Image
I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos… — Ransom Riggs Able Copy Share Image
“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 Love mom Copy Share Image
“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more… — Ransom Riggs Face to face 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 Gaze 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 Ransom-riggs Copy Share Image
“I jogged along the deck to the stern, tracking the shipwreck as it disappeared beneath our wake. Then, just as I was… — Ransom Riggs Adventure Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
“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… — Ransom Riggs Christmas dinner Copy Share Image
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.” — Ransom Riggs Best friends Copy Share Image
“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob” — Ransom Riggs Insane Copy Share Image
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs Believe Copy Share Image
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Feminism Copy Share Image
