Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Is anything illegal here? Addison asked.Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and thats just for paperbacks.Theres a library?Two. Though one wont lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.

Its easy to say you dont care about money when you have plenty of it.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, its easy to say you dont care about money when you have plenty of it.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it

Id 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.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

They may love you, she whispered, but theyll never understand.

You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish youd just stayed in bed?

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

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 wasnt bulletproof. She mightve been peculiar but she was also human,

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. Its a lot of crap.

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and its not to fail and die.

Though I imagine were killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways thatll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog aint a bad choice. Its not quite water and its not quite land - its an in-between place.

I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.

I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.

I cried harder. I didnt want to, but I couldnt stop myself.I couldnt stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs.

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone?