459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

There’s an art to fleeing casually. It’s not easy, running from something that might kill you while not attracting stares.

Such was the way the sad world turned.

My brother was an opportunist above all else,” she said. “I think part of him did want to do the right thing, and when he helped you and Miss Bloom, he did so genuinely. But all along he’d been making preparations to betray us, in case that turned out to be advantageous for him. And when I told him where to stuff it, he decided that it was.

Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.

An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.

In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty – an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present.

Addison had no filter; he always said just what he meant.

But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. 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.

Fictions, whoppers and paradiddles.