01UndatedI'd never asked what year it was here-1492? 1750?-though to the animals I guess it hardly mattered. This was a safe place apart from the world of people, and only in the world of people did the year make any difference.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
02UndatedYou may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
05UndatedDo you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
06UndatedMales lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
07UndatedShe had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
08UndatedDestiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
09UndatedWhat I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
10UndatedThough I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
11UndatedI was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
12UndatedI wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
13UndatedI cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself.I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
14UndatedThey worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
15UndatedTo have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
16UndatedStars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone?Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
17UndatedStars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
18UndatedAn air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
19UndatedRight at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
20UndatedI knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
21UndatedA song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
22UndatedI slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
23UndatedTheir memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
24UndatedMaybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
