“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.” — Ransom Riggs Acceptance 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
“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
“For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.” — Ransom Riggs Sacrifices Copy Share Image
“You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” — Ransom Riggs Humor 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 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
“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
“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 Circle Copy Share Image
“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out… — Ransom Riggs Horrors Copy Share Image
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 Giving 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
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr.… — Ransom Riggs Funny 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 Fantasies Inoculating 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
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
“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 Knew 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 Certain 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
“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
“In reaching toward Emma, I’d risked everything—was risking it again, every day—but in doing so I had grasped and pulled myself into… — Ransom Riggs Every day Copy Share Image
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.” — Ransom Riggs Best friends Copy Share Image
“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” — Ransom Riggs Money Copy Share Image
“Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.” — Ransom Riggs Forecasting Copy Share Image