"If I never went home, what exactly would……" — Ransom Riggs
"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 utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it."
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28 Quotes by Ransom Riggs
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When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
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We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
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Sometimes it's better not to look back.
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to…
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
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I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
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There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who…
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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