Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.” — Ransom Riggs Best friends Copy Share Image
“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs Discipleship 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
“...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs 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
“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“This is a madhouse!” said Horace. Deirdre laughed. “No, doveling. It’s a menagerie.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“ ‘You don’t strike me as a quitter.’ ‘Then you don’t know me very well,’ I replied.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, we were wondering what your intentions might be, vis à vis eating us.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't… — Ransom Riggs Giving Copy Share Image
“The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out… — Ransom Riggs Horrors 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
“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 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
“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 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
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
“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more… — Ransom Riggs Face to face Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why it was so important for her to prove to a stranger that we were good-hearted, when we knew… — Ransom Riggs Nature Copy Share Image
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… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That… — Ransom Riggs Children Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in… — 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're right, Dad. Dr. Golan did help me. But that doesn't mean he has to control every aspect of my life. I… — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
“Then what became of the suul you drew from him?” said Miss Peregrine.” — Ransom Riggs Peregrine Copy Share Image
