“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.” — Ransom Riggs Best friends 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
“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
“her flame with a clap of her hands. Bronwyn dropped the boy and he stumbled away. The Gypsies fled back to their… — Ransom Riggs Gypsies Fled Copy Share Image
“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 Books Copy Share Image
“He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.” — Ransom Riggs Best friend Copy Share Image
“You never doubt, ever?" Emma shook her head. "Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.” — Ransom Riggs Doubt Copy Share Image
“seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what “some time” meant: hours and hours. “Then I’ll go find… — Ransom Riggs Promised 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
“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 Like Plant Copy Share Image
“Beyond the iced windows the sun was sinking. Shadows bloomed across the walls and multiplied in the stairwells, and as the light… — Ransom Riggs Light 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
“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 Money 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
“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
“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to… — Ransom Riggs Subterranean Copy Share Image
“But in general that is how we prefer to be thought of, for it tends to keep away unwanted visitors. These days… — Ransom Riggs Common folk Copy Share Image
“Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt—my own, my… — Ransom Riggs Destiny Copy Share Image
“Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. A curlicued swing set in a… — Ransom Riggs Bombed Copy Share Image
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How… — Ransom Riggs Ancient Copy Share Image
“they used that creative faculty to dismantle the world. To make living things into dead things. And for what? So that they… — Ransom Riggs Creativity Copy Share Image
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I'd never recover.” — Ransom Riggs Awake Copy Share Image
“Then again, it’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it.” — Ransom Riggs Easy Copy Share Image
“It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life. We” — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, we were wondering what your intentions might be, vis à vis eating us.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only… — Ransom Riggs Care Copy Share Image
“ ‘You don’t strike me as a quitter.’ ‘Then you don’t know me very well,’ I replied.” — Ransom Riggs Quitter Copy Share Image
“This is a madhouse!” said Horace. Deirdre laughed. “No, doveling. It’s a menagerie.” — Ransom Riggs Madhouse Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among… — Ransom Riggs Business Copy Share Image
“...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs Extraordinary Copy Share Image
“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.” — Ransom Riggs Didn Mean Copy Share Image
“We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.” — Ransom Riggs Alike Copy Share Image
“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs Discipleship 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
“It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.” — Ransom Riggs Dreams Copy Share Image
