“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
There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift… — Ransom Riggs Bees Copy Share Image
“Yo no sabía como llamar a aquello que sucedía entre nosotros, pero me gustaba. Me proporcionaba una sensación estúpida, frágil y agradable.” — Ransom Riggs Amor Copy Share Image
“If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn’t have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe.” — Ransom Riggs Shut Eyes Copy Share Image
“I felt ashamed for having been jealous of his life, considering the price he'd paid for it, and I tried to feel… — Ransom Riggs Ashamed 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 Imagined Copy Share Image
“With that he sank back, spent and fading. I told him I loved him. And then he seemed to disappear into himself,… — Ransom Riggs Told Loved Copy Share Image
“That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself… — Ransom Riggs Cannibalism Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to be rude' I said, 'but what are you people?' 'We're peculiar,' he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. 'Aren't… — Ransom Riggs Puzzled 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
“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying… — Ransom Riggs Bad thing 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
“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series… — Ransom Riggs Goodbye Copy Share Image
“Millard! Who's the prime minister?" "Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?" "What's the capital of Burma?" "Lord, I've no idea.… — Ransom Riggs Burma 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
“Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940.” I nodded, but he… — Ransom Riggs Letter 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 Belonged Copy Share Image
“The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his… — Ransom Riggs Strange Copy Share Image
“Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her… — Ransom Riggs Beamed Smiling Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these… — Ransom Riggs Accepting Copy Share Image
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I… — Ransom Riggs Balance Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar… — Ransom Riggs Blessing Copy Share Image
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I… — Ransom Riggs Day by day Copy Share Image
“And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between… — Ransom Riggs Love Copy Share Image
“ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you… — Ransom Riggs Ordinary extraordinary Copy Share Image
Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've… — Ransom Riggs Bad thing Copy Share Image
“You’re supposed to, I think. Just like you were supposed to come to Cairnholm.” “I don’t believe in stuff like that. Fate.… — Ransom Riggs Books Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Babies Copy Share Image
“Era difícil imaginar alguém a opor-se à presença destas pessoas bondosas, mas a verdade é que tinham sido preconceitos desse género que… — Ransom Riggs Amor Copy Share Image
“I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a… — Ransom Riggs Management Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t because I didn’t think horses were beautiful, majestic creatures, the pinnacle of animal creation, etc., etc.—it’s just that I didn’t… — Ransom Riggs Horses Copy Share Image
“If. 'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I… — Ransom Riggs Depended Copy Share Image
“At times young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded. (...) Miss Bloom, would you… — Ransom Riggs Flowers Copy Share Image
“We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the… — Ransom Riggs Friendship Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, wandering mall aisles on an errand with my parents, I would think about the people I’d seen living on the margins… — Ransom Riggs Parenting Copy Share Image
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. — Ransom Riggs Casting Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting — Ransom Riggs Experts Copy Share Image
“They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn't that… — Ransom Riggs Historical Copy Share Image