459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Perhaps she was born in the wrong body.

She’d been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it.

He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn’t laugh at him.

Maybe,” she said. “Maybe. But now you’re making promises you might not be able to keep, and that’s how people in love get very badly hurt.

I felt ashamed for having been jealous of his life, considering the price he’d paid for it, and I tried to feel lucky for the safe and unextraordinary one that I had done nothing to deserve.

He made a grab for me, but slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it.

Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.

Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.” She stepped close and we hugged. I could feel her trembling ever so slightly. She wasn’t bulletproof. I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma’s confidence was what held everything together. It was the life raft.