459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

Travel is crucial to one’s development,” said Miss Peregrine, her tone strangely defensive. “Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.

I love being peculiar, Jacob- It’s the very core of who i am. But there are days i wish i could turn it off.

Even ymbrynes can’t touch them. In the stories, only special adepts called librarians can see and handle them – and a librarian hasn’t been born for a thousand years. If the library exists, all Jack would find there are empty shelves.

I felt it, too: the dread, the weight of the horrors we’d seen, which replayed themselves in an endless, lurid loop in my mind. But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse anymore than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it’s size made it dangerous.

Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren’t lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth – because the story of Grandpa Portman’s childhood wasn’t a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story.

There was an iron will inside me, I knew that now, and I hoped I could hang on to it even as my life grew softer.

I searched for the words, but they’d gotten shy.

I suppose. Though I imagine we’re killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that’ll seem insane to people in the future.