“He was lucky in a way. It wasn’t long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines.” — Ransom Riggs Computers Copy Share Image
“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular… — Ransom Riggs Messages Copy Share Image
“Kad te netko ne želi pustiti unutra, s vremenom odustaneš i ne da ti se više kucati.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.” — Ransom Riggs Nude Copy Share Image
“I must apologize,” he said. “It seems I’ve gone and gotten myself shot.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” — Ransom Riggs Money Copy Share Image
“Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.” — Ransom Riggs Dragon 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
“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.… — Ransom Riggs Accidents Copy Share Image
“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd… — Ransom Riggs Love Copy Share Image
“Golan swiveled his head back and forth, nervously sizing us up. Is she serious? For a moment he seemed genuinely frightened, but… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“..."I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one… — Ransom Riggs Descriptive-prose Copy Share Image
“I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices (...), the object… — Ransom Riggs Death Copy Share Image
“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.” — Ransom Riggs Human psyche 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
“I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.” — Ransom Riggs 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 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
“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
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. — Ransom Riggs 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
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.” — Ransom Riggs Comedy 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
“It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making machine,' 'I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“and he seemed to remember himself, and said: “We found something else, though.” — Ransom Riggs Memory Copy Share Image
“I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke… — Ransom Riggs Fire Copy Share Image
“-It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine. -I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue.” — Ransom Riggs Moon 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
“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I swear on my life, one day I’ll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.” — Ransom Riggs Life Copy Share Image
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. — Ransom Riggs Dream Copy Share Image
“When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.” — Ransom Riggs Big things Copy Share Image
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Find the bird, find the loop, Yakob vai don't you understand you goddamned stupid yutzi” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.” — Ransom Riggs Dreams Copy Share Image