459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

It’s a brave new world, Mr. Portman, And we’ll be right behind you.

I knew plenty of eighty-year-olds in Florida, and these kids acted nothing like them. It was as if the constance of their lives here, the unvarying days – this perpetual deathless summer – had arrested their emotions as well as their bodies, sealing them in their youth like Peter Pan and his Lost Boys.

Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?

You’re here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.

Sometimes it’s better not to look back.

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

Never mind compassion! Fie on loyalty! If you’re as intelligent and ambitious a fellow as I think you are, then you’ll recognize an extraordinary opportunity for advancement when you see one.

These strange-looking people weren’t peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present.

Travel is crucial to one’s development,” said Miss Peregrine, her tone strangely defensive. “Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant. It’s important the children learn that our society is not the center of the peculiar universe.