459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

The easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up.

It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died.

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don’t know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

You’re getting overwhelmed,” said Emma. “Big tasks always seem that way if you try and figure out every little piece of them beforehand. We have to take it bit by bit.

Maybe lots of people go through life never knowing they’re peculiar.

I didn’t know you could fry toast,” I remarked, to which Kev replied that there wasn’t a food he was aware of that couldn’t be improved by frying.

Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?

Get ahold of yourself, girl...

I was the perfect automaton: blessed with ability but cursed with ignorance.