459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.

Oh for heaven’s sake, you provincial boob, I can speak better English than you can.

All I could think was that grandfathers were supposed to die in beds, in hushed places humming with machines, not in heaps on the sodden reeking ground with ants marching over them, a brass letter opener clutched in one trembling hand.

More fantastic still were his stories about life in the Welsh children’s home. 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. Everyone lived together in a big house that was protected by a wise old bird – or so the story went. As I got older, though, I began to have doubts.

In other words, being born with a certain ability does not mean we are obliged to use it, and in rare cases, we are obliged not to. All.

Someone make it die!

Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.

I didn’t say EAT him!