Ransom Riggs Quotes

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• But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they…
• When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
• We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been…
• Sometimes it's better not to look back.
• I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.…
• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
• Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
• I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
• There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their…
• If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the…
• Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
• What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a…
• If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
• 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 forgotten. It just…
• Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.
• So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered.…
• Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.
• There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in…
• I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked…

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