Ransom Riggs
Quotes by Ransom Riggs
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She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,
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Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.
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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
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You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.
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They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.
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You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.
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I'd never asked what year it was here-1492? 1750?-though to the animals I guess it hardly mattered. This was a safe place apart from the world of people, and only in the world of people did the year make any difference.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it
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It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn't, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
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It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
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Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.
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Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum...do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!
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What a beautiful day to go to hell
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You're upset, you're cold, and you're wet, wouldn't you rather discuss all this over a pot of hot tea? Yes, but I wasn't going to say so.
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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 were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.
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Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and grew a rose bush heavy with red flowers right where they stood. Hugh's bees rushed to pollinate it, and while they were occupied– as if she'd done it just so they could have a moment to themselves– Fiona embraced him and whispered something in his ear, and Hugh nodded and whispered.
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That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
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..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.
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Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
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Have they built cities on the moon? another boy asked hopefully.We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.
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