Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

— Ransom Riggs

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

— Ransom Riggs

“I am getting to what I am getting to!” Millard snapped.”

— Ransom Riggs

“He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.”

— Ransom Riggs

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

— Ransom Riggs

“He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.”

— Ransom Riggs

“I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance'...”

— Ransom Riggs

“Then again, it’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it.”

— Ransom Riggs

“You never doubt, ever?" Emma shook her head. "Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.”

— Ransom Riggs

“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I'd never recover.”

— Ransom Riggs

“her flame with a clap of her hands. Bronwyn dropped the boy and he stumbled away. The Gypsies fled back to their…

— Ransom Riggs

“Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.”

— Ransom Riggs

“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”

— Ransom Riggs

“Beyond the iced windows the sun was sinking. Shadows bloomed across the walls and multiplied in the stairwells, and as the light…

— Ransom Riggs

“Pointing into the ice, she said, “See that potted plant on the desk in there?” I saw. Nodded. “It’s green now, preserved…

— Ransom Riggs

“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure…

— Ransom Riggs

“Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company - just not pants-worthy company…

— Ransom Riggs

“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out…

— Ransom Riggs

“The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking…

— Ransom Riggs

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't…

— Ransom Riggs

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of…

— Ransom Riggs

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

“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

“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

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another…

— Ransom Riggs

“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

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

— 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

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— 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…

— Ransom Riggs

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

— 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

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

— Ransom Riggs

“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

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

— Ransom Riggs