459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

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

Sometimes you just need to go through a door

It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.

..."I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless.

Los abuelos tenían que morir en camas, en lugares silenciosos donde zumbaban máquinas, no desplomados sobre el suelo empapado y apestoso con hormigas pasándole por encima y un abrecartas de latón aferrado en una mano temblorosa.

Good gravy,” said Elmer. “You’re getting a real crash course, then.”“That’s for sure.”“It’s definitely more crash than course,” said Enoch.

How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. The cooperation part was an unofficial brains-for-brawn trade we'd worked out in which I helped him not fail English and he helped me not get killed by the roided-out sociopaths who prowled the halls of our high school.

I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.