459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

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.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.