01UndatedStrange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
02UndatedIf I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
04UndatedMillard! Who's the prime minister?""Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?""What's the capital of Burma?""Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?""Good! When's your birthday?""Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
06UndatedI love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor peopleRansom Riggs / quote ↗
07UndatedShe moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
08UndatedI didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
09UndatedWhat would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
11UndatedHave they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully."We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
12UndatedYou Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty.""Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm repliedRansom Riggs / quote ↗
15Undated..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
16UndatedHugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and grew a rose bush heavy with red flowers right where they stood. Hugh's bees rushed to pollinate it, and while they were occupied– as if she'd done it just so they could have a moment to themselves– Fiona embraced him and whispered something in his ear, and Hugh nodded and whispered.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
17UndatedBut these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
18UndatedConsider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum...do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
20UndatedYou're upset, you're cold, and you're wet, wouldn't you rather discuss all this over a pot of hot tea?" Yes, but I wasn't going to say so.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
21UndatedIs anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
22UndatedIt's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
23UndatedIt seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
24UndatedMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love itRansom Riggs / quote ↗
