459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

She pressed the knife harder against my throat, her hand shaking. She was scared – which meant she was dangerous.

It’s as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.

Let me see: There’s Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting together in Derbyshire on Saint Swithin’s Day of 1867; Miss Treecreeper I don’t remmeber where exactly – oh, and dear Miss Finch.

Yeah, he was a psychobabble-spewing prick. But that didn’t make him wrong.

Then, a few years later, when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who – we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.

But I swore to myself that we’d find our friends and our ymbryne, no matter the cost, even if there were only bodies to recover – even if it meant adding our own to the pile.

What a beautiful day to go to hell.