I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds… — Ransom Riggs Doors Copy Share Image
“When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.” — Ransom Riggs Big things Copy Share Image
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. — Ransom Riggs Dream Copy Share Image
“I swear on my life, one day I’ll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.” — Ransom Riggs Life 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 Door Copy Share Image
“And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue.” — Ransom Riggs Moon 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 Generator Copy Share Image
“I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke… — Ransom Riggs Fire 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
“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 Orphans Copy Share Image
“The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to… — Ransom Riggs Delusions Copy Share Image
“Because we weren’t like other people. We were peculiar.” “Peculiar how?” “Oh, all sorts of ways,” he said. “There was a girl… — Ransom Riggs Brother and sister Copy Share Image
“Then Bronwyn said, "I believe in you, Jacob. I haven't known you too long, but I feel I know your heart, and… — Ransom Riggs Too long 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 Bombs 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
“...when we broke the surface again the first thing I saw was the great bold stripe of the Milky Way painted across… — Ransom Riggs Astronomy 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
“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and… — Ransom Riggs Cute Copy Share Image
“But this wasn’t a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. There were no bumper lanes to keep my ball out of… — Ransom Riggs Lanes Copy Share Image
“No hagas promesas que no vas a poder cumplir, así es como los enamorados se hacen daño.” — Ransom Riggs Amor Copy Share Image
“So it's not even a decision, really. You stay. It's only later - years later - that you begin to wonder what… — Ransom Riggs Later Copy Share Image
“I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.” — Ransom Riggs Insane Copy Share Image
“Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.” — Ransom Riggs Dragon Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” — Ransom Riggs Money Copy Share Image
“I must apologize,” he said. “It seems I’ve gone and gotten myself shot.” — Ransom Riggs Apologize Copy Share Image
“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.” — Ransom Riggs Nude Copy Share Image
“Kad te netko ne želi pustiti unutra, s vremenom odustaneš i ne da ti se više kucati.” — Ransom Riggs Toga Copy Share Image
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular… — Ransom Riggs Messages Copy Share Image
“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.” — Ransom Riggs Compliment Copy Share Image
“He was lucky in a way. It wasn’t long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines.” — Ransom Riggs Computers Copy Share Image
“like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs Instant Copy Share Image
“and he seemed to remember himself, and said: “We found something else, though.” — Ransom Riggs Memory Copy Share Image
“It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making machine,' 'I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.” — Ransom Riggs Generator Copy Share Image
“I’d felt so many things since our journey began—joy, fear, hope, horror—but until now, I’d never once felt alone.” — Ransom Riggs Fear Copy Share Image
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.” — Ransom Riggs Carry Copy Share Image
“He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.” — Ransom Riggs Comedy Copy Share Image
“..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.” — Ransom Riggs Friendship Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. — Ransom Riggs Accepting Copy Share Image
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.” — Ransom Riggs Bad thing Copy Share Image
“My brothers taught me a hard lesson. No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.” — Ransom Riggs Brothers Copy Share Image