459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.

I was moved by this new idea of my grandfather, not as a paranoiac gun nut or a secretive philanderer or a man who wasn’t there for his family, but as a wandering knight who risked his life for others, living out of cars and cheap motels, stalking lethal shadows, coming home shy a few bullets and marked with bruises he could never quite explain and nightmares he couldn’t talk about. For his many sacrifice he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.

I knew it sounded crazy, but crazier things have turned out to be true.

And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake.

Even here – running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death – even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace.

It’s not that nothing else is possible, but nothing else was nurtured.

Enoch’s jaw fell open. “Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!” he said. “Only when they get excited,” said Addison. “Most of their eggs are quite safe – and delicious! But it was the exploding ones that earned them their rather unkind name: Armageddon chickens.

Dogs can’t speak English. Nor any human language – save, in one notable exception, Luxembourgish, which is only comprehensible to bankers and Luxembourgers, and therefore hardly of any use at all. No, you’ve eaten something disagreeable and are having a nightmare, that’s all.

I felt empty, too, and strangely heavy, like the planet was spinning too fast, heating up gravity, pulling me toward the floor.