Quotes by Ransom Riggs

About Ransom Riggs:

Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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What 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.

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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.

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What 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.

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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

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You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

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Maybe 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 i...

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Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that make me crazy? Or was my heart too easily conquered?

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Which 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.

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I 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.

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...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.

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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.

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I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

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Stars, 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 ta...

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I 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 v...

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Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

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I didn't know you could fry toast," I remarked, to which Kev replied that there wasn't a food he was aware of that couldn't be improved by frying.

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That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

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..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

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Have 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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRansom Riggs
  • DescriptionWriter
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter