Top 100 Ransom Riggs Quotes
#1. I 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.
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#2. But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. There were no bumper lanes to keep my ball out of the gutter.
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#4. Millard! Are you all right? Say something!"
"I must apologize," he said. "It seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
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#5. A blinding yellow track suit and fake gold chains.
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#6. because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors.
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#7. Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
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#9. Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.
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#10. You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.
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#11. Just because they knew it was lost didn't mean they knew how to let it go.
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#12. pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he'd hung from the mirror couldn't mask.
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#13. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!
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#14. We're peculiar," he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. "Aren't you?
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#15. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." She stepped close and we hugged. I could feel her trembling ever so slightly. She wasn't bulletproof. I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma's confidence was what held everything together. It was the life raft.
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#16. If what they kept and clung to seemed strange, part of me sympathized: it was all they had left of their home. Just because they knew it was gone didn't mean they knew how to let it go.
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#17. When we broke the surface again the first thing I saw was the great bold stripe of the Milky Way painted across the heavens, and it occurred to me that together the fish and the stars formed a complete system, coincident parts of some ancient and mysterious whole.
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#19. The peculiarity for which they'd been hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood.
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#20. I wanted to tell her then that I loved her. I thought that might help, by grounding us in something we were sure about rather than everything we weren't.
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#21. But Emma. There was Emma. Maybe it wasn't so strange, what we could have. Maybe I could stay for a while and love her and then go home. But no. By the time I wanted to leave, it would be too late. She was a siren. I had to be strong.
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#22. I swear on my life, one day I'll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.
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#24. selling yourself erodes your moral compass.
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#25. Slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
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#26. I used to dream of 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.
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#27. How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
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#28. But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery.
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#29. When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
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#30. With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The
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#31. I am getting to what I am getting to! Millard snapped.
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#32. Those who escaped the noose settled here, at the very bottom, the absolute edge of peculiar society. Exiled from the outcasts of outcasts
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#33. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
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#34. 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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#35. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it
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#36. Grandpa Portman really knew how to keep a secret, didn't he?""Are you kidding? The man was an emotional Fort Knox.
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#37. Everyone thinks I'm a coward. This is my chance to prove them wrong." "Don't throw your life away because of a few jokes made at your expense," said Hugh. "Who gives a whit what anyone else thinks?
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#38. In that moment I was deeply grateful to the Gypsies, and for the simplemindedness of the animal part of my brain; that a hot meal and 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. Then
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#39. You're the most obviously peculiar bunch of peculiars I've ever laid eyes on.
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#40. Consider 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!
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#41. Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you're six-five and have green hair and my grandfather doesn't know you and owns lots of guns.
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#42. Somehow I had tamed the nightmare, cast a spell over it. But sleeping things wake and spells wear off, especially those cast by accident, and beneath its placid surface I could feel the hollow boiling. Addison
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#43. I'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.
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#44. Likewise the boy who was dressed to the nines in a muddy but finely tailored suit and stove-in top hat, his face drawn and haggard from lack of sleep, for he hadn't allowed himself any in days, so afraid was he of his dreams.
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#45. I should warn you: this is an ambrosia den, and there'll be peculiars in there who are lit out of their minds. Don't talk to them, and whatever you do, don't look them in the eye. I know people who've been blinded that way.
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#46. It was a constant struggle for me, having no idea what tomorrow held. I'm cautious by nature, a planner - someone who likes to know what's around the next corner and the corner after that - and
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#47. Long moment there was only the sound of rain banking off the roof, like a thousand fingers tapping way off somewhere.
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#48. I left the house feeling like I was further than ever from the truth.
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#49. Emma shook her head. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.
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#50. As he always says, the day there's no time for manners, the world's lost to us anyway.
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#51. It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making machine,'
'I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.
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#52. It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.
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#53. Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.
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#54. What're you going to do," he said, "pollinate it to death?
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#55. I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
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#56. -Tell me where that bird is.=
-She's in the drawer.-
-What drawer?-
-Same one she's always been in.-
-What drawer?!
-Your mother's knickers drawer,- and he spat right in Mr. White's face.
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#57. But the way she looked at me. Just that crooked bit of smile gave me a surge, and I felt I could do anything.
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#58. 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.
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#59. There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside
a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as orphan's tears.
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#60. Sometimes I can't decide whether you're completely mad or some sort of miracle,
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#61. Ahh," Sharon said airily from the corner, "the sweet lies lovers tell ...
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#62. If we've considered all the worst possibilities and one turns out to be true, we won't be completely unprepared for it.
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#63. If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
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#64. The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking cul-de-sacs known collectively as Circle Village.
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#65. Mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon.
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#66. Oozing Street was oddly cheerful, with flower boxes hanging from windowsills and houses painted bright colors; even the slaughterhouse that anchored it was an inviting robin's-egg blue, and I resisted an odd impulse to go inside and ask for a tour.
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#67. Enoch's jaw fell open. "Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!" he said. "Only when they get excited," said Addison. "Most of their eggs are quite safe - and delicious! But it was the exploding ones that earned them their rather unkind name: Armageddon chickens.
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#68. Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor.
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#69. When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.
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#70. It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.
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#72. By 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.
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#74. She pressed the knife harder against my throat, her hand shaking. She was scared - which meant she was dangerous.
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#75. I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
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#76. 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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#77. And suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being.
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#78. There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchman at the end of the world.
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#79. Still having nightmares? I've got something for that. Panic attack on the school bus? This should do the trick. Can't sleep? Let's up the dosage. All those pills were making me fat and stupid, and I was still miserable, getting only three or four hours of sleep a night.
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#80. 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.
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#81. You used Neverleak," Shelley said, eyeing my craftsmanship with a skeptical frown. "The sale's on Stay-Tite." Shelley was the store manager, and her slumped shoulders and dour expression were as much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to wear.
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#82. How could I possibly stay here and leave behind everthing I'd known? But after all I'd learned, how could I go home?
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#83. 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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#84. Notes are absolutely essential to the process.
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#85. and he seemed to remember himself, and said: "We found something else, though.
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#86. Just because I'm a capitalist doesn't mean I'm a black-hearted bastard.
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#88. The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster
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#89. Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?
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#90. Maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring's sake. There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just
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#91. And if he's scared of us, Jacob..." She narrowed her eyes at me. "That means there's something to be scared of.
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#92. You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.
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#93. I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.
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#94. We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world.
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#95. You'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.
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#96. You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty."
"Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied
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#97. Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be.
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#98. Nowhere am I deadlier than in a field of wildflowers.
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#99. She 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.
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