459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

I wouldn’t leave her behind for anything. And not because I was noble or brave or chivalrous. I’m not any of those things. I was afraid that leaving her behind would rip me in half. And.

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead?

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

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 watchman at the end of the world.

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.

My brothers taught me a hard lesson. No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.

Despair was tangible here, weighting down everything, the very air.

Had I been in some kind of psychotic haze all morning? Was I in one now?

I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover.