459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Nowhere am I deadlier than in a field of wildflowers.

I expected as much from you, girl,” said Caul. “You’re so typical of ymbryne-raised peculiars: no ambition, and no sense at all but one of entitlement. Quiet yourself, I am speaking to the male.

Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before – the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall – my experience of it would be new.

What’re you going to do,” he said, “pollinate it to death?

He was military-trained, dummy. A stone-cold badass. He had a walk-in closet full of sawed-off shotguns. The man was Rambo compared to you.

There were wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled by the light of ten thousand afternoons; a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifers in an ornate prison. In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles.

I should warn you: this is an ambrosia den, and there’ll be peculiars in there who are lit out of their minds. Don’t talk to them, and whatever you do, don’t look them in the eye. I know people who’ve been blinded that way.

Notes are absolutely essential to the process.

Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.