“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.” — Ransom Riggs Acceptance Copy Share Image
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only… — Ransom Riggs Care Copy Share Image
“It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life. We” — Ransom Riggs Life 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
If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into… — Ransom Riggs Book Copy Share Image
“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Jacob, inspector of shadows, miraculous interpreter of squirmy gut feelings, seer and slayer of real and actual monsters—” — Ransom Riggs Gut feelings Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Feminism 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
“Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And… — Ransom Riggs 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
“It’s not that I didn’t want to—more than anything I did—but the idea of kissing her two feet from a box of… — Ransom Riggs Love Copy Share Image
“Addison sighed. "All this fleeing," he said disdainfully, as if he were a gourmand and someone had offered him a limp square… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I wanted to thank you," I said. She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?"… — Ransom Riggs Inspiration Copy Share Image
“I came to enjoy communicating by hand. There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“As we passed he returned grimly to his task, though his arthritic hands could hardly close around the stick. There was something… — Ransom Riggs End of the world Copy Share Image
“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
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How… — Ransom Riggs Ancient Copy Share Image
“I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me,… — Ransom Riggs Family Copy Share Image
“In reaching toward Emma, I’d risked everything—was risking it again, every day—but in doing so I had grasped and pulled myself into… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. A curlicued swing set in a… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt—my own, my… — Ransom Riggs Destiny Copy Share Image
“But in general that is how we prefer to be thought of, for it tends to keep away unwanted visitors. These days… — Ransom Riggs Common folk 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 Subterranean Copy Share Image
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
“You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” — Ransom Riggs Humor Copy Share Image
“For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.” — Ransom Riggs Sacrifices Copy Share Image
“Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully. "We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties,… — Ransom Riggs Funny Copy Share Image
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.” — Ransom Riggs Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded… — Ransom Riggs Grief Copy Share Image
“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!” — Ransom Riggs Christmas Copy Share Image
“It's not about destiny but i do think there's balance in the world and forces we don't understand intervene to tip the… — Ransom Riggs Balance Copy Share Image
“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.” — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.” — Ransom Riggs Gratitude Copy Share Image
“like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
