“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
“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.” — Ransom Riggs Acceptance 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 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
“We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“We love you, too, Jake, and if it's drugs or whatever it is, we don't care. We'll get you right again. Like… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“She put her arms around me again and we held each other for a long moment, her head on my shoulder, breath… — Ransom Riggs Time Copy Share Image
“I must apologize,” he said. “It seems I’ve gone and gotten myself shot.” — Ransom Riggs 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 Copy Share Image
“You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied” — Ransom Riggs Funny 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 Copy Share Image
“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots… — Ransom Riggs Florida Copy Share Image
“You never doubt, ever?" Emma shook her head. "Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.” — Ransom Riggs Library-of-souls 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
“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
“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
“Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.” — Ransom Riggs Forecasting Copy Share Image
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Baby 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 knew exactly what was about to happen. It was part of this pathetic cycle my dad was caught in. He'd get… — Ransom Riggs 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
“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
