“He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity for which they’d been hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island… — Ransom Riggs War Copy Share Image
“-It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine. -I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator” — Ransom Riggs 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 Dream Copy Share Image
When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking, know what I mean? — Ransom Riggs Happiness 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 slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.” — Ransom Riggs 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 Descriptions Copy Share Image
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up… — Ransom Riggs Collect 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
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.” — Ransom Riggs Best friends Copy Share Image
“The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.” — Ransom Riggs Time Copy Share Image
I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but… — Ransom Riggs Abundance Copy Share Image
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Feminism 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 love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me,… — Ransom Riggs Family Copy Share Image
Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out I just try… — Ransom Riggs Embrace Copy Share Image
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had… — Ransom Riggs Born Copy Share Image
“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 Business 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
“Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that… — Ransom Riggs Heart Copy Share Image
“She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch… — Ransom Riggs Children Copy Share Image
“I realized that leaving wouldn't be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. Their memory was something tangible and heavy,… — Ransom Riggs Memory Copy Share Image
