459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

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    I told him I had another statement to make and then held up my middle finger and walked out.

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    And so Enoch held up Miss Peregrine's cage and she let out a great screeching cry. We answered with a cry of our own, both a victory yell and a lament, for everything lost and yet to be gained.

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    Bibliotekens förseningsavgifter är ganska dryga. Tio piskrapp per dag, och det är för pocketböcker.

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    Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!

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    There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside-- a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as "orphan's tears.

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    Addison sighed. "All this fleeing," he said disdainfully, as if he were a gourmand and someone had offered him a limp square of American cheese. "There's no imagination in it. Mightn't we try sneaking? Blending in? There's artistry in that.

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    As we passed he returned grimly to his task, though his arthritic hands could hardly close around the stick. There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchmen at the end of the world.

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    You never doubt, ever?"Emma shook her head. "Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.

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