459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

I love sad stories,” said Enoch. “Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.

It’s not about destiny but i do think there’s balance in the world and forces we don’t understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.

I hate fleeing as much as anyone,” I said, “but Emma and I look like nineteenth-century axe murderers, and you’re a dog who wears glasses. We’re bound to be noticed.

With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we’d never work apart. The.

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. The cooperation part was an unofficial brains-for-brawn trade we’d worked out in which I helped him not fail English and he helped me not get killed by the roided-out sociopaths who prowled the halls of our high school.

Survive, yes – but at what cost?

Despite everything, this peculiar life was what I’d always wanted. Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor.

War is a germ that can rarely be contained.