459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

I was born on Halloween, and until I was eight years old my parents had me convinced that the candy people gave out when I knocked on their doors was birthday presents.

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.

Miracle. Curse. I hadn’t quite worked out the difference.

The bird only keeps good things about the future to herself, but you can bet we hear all the brown-trouser bits.

The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.

And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue.

They had a million questions for me, and, far away from Miss Peregrine, I could answer them frankly. What was my world like? What did people eat, drink, wear? When would sickness and death be overcome by science?

There are peculiars all over the world,” she said, “though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were. Those who remain live in hiding, as we do.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.