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Ransom Riggs Quotes

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“It’s not uncommon, using fantasy to cope with the brutal truth.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tagged: Fantasy, coping with truth, fantasy and truth, Reality, Escaping
“I’m here - I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Tagged: Here, Staying, not leaving, Stay, Togetherness, Comfort, Comforting
“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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“She 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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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“A 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, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“To 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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“But 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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“If 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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
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“I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap - and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.”
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
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