459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

I had always known the sky was full of mysteries – but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure about that,” Emma said. “Only kidding!” said Horace. “It’s to buy clothes, of course.

That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.

Armageddon chickens.

I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap – and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.

For amusement, they ingest whatever flammable liquids are at hand and sing badly at the top of their lungs.

When the smoke cleared, we saw the chickens still coming toward us, unhurt and seemingly unsurprised by the blast, a little cloud of feathers wafting around them like fat snowflakes. Enoch’s jaw fell open. “Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!” he said. “Only when they get excited,” said.

They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood.