“It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.” — Ransom Riggs Occurred Copy Share Image
It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. — Ransom Riggs Care 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
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? — Ransom Riggs Bed Copy Share Image
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Feminism 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
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
“You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied” — 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
“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
“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 Hollow 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
“Addison sighed. "All this fleeing," he said disdainfully, as if he were a gourmand and someone had offered him a limp square… — Ransom Riggs Library-of-souls 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
“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 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
“Golan swiveled his head back and forth, nervously sizing us up. Is she serious? For a moment he seemed genuinely frightened, but… — Ransom Riggs Frightened 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
“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
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Baby 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
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
“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 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 Florida 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
“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 used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Breaking dawn 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
“She put her arms around me again and we held each other for a long moment, her head on my shoulder, breath… — Ransom Riggs Kissed 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
“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally,… — Ransom Riggs Embraced Copy Share Image
“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal… — Ransom Riggs Beauty Copy Share Image
