01UndatedWhich was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
03UndatedWhen I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and to have your life made unrecognised by it, to come out of all that the honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be - THAT was magical.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
04UndatedThe day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
05UndatedI used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
06UndatedShe 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.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
07Undated...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
08UndatedHe closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
09UndatedBy morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
10UndatedMaybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
11Undatedanything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
13UndatedI wanted to thank you," I said.She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said."You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
14UndatedOne of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
15UndatedEarly in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
16UndatedHe’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
17UndatedThey were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
18UndatedThey were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
19UndatedWhat if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
20UndatedForgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
21UndatedFor a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
22UndatedEvery snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.Ransom Riggs / quote ↗
