Top 100 Ransom Riggs Quotes
#1. And so Enoch held up Miss Peregrine's cage and she let out a great screeching cry. We answered with a cry of our own, both a victory yell and a lament, for everything lost and yet to be gained.
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#2. selling yourself erodes your moral compass.
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#3. I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices ( ... ), the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.
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#4. It's not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. The strangest thing.
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#5. Maybe," 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.
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#7. Present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted.
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#8. Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!
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#9. I searched for the words, but they'd gotten shy.
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#10. I hate fleeing as much as anyone," I said, "but Emma and I look like nineteenth-century axe murderers, and you're a dog who wears glasses. We're bound to be noticed.
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#11. Brief prayers were muttered for Martin's soul, and then people began trading theories. Within minutes the place was a smoke-filled den of tipsy Sherlock Holmses.
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#15. That house is such an emotionally loaded place for you, just being inside was enough to trigger a stress reaction.
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#16. Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.
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#17. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
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#18. They had a million questions for me, and, far away from Miss Peregrine, I could answer them frankly. What was my world like? What did people eat, drink, wear? When would sickness and death be overcome by science?
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#19. Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was.
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#20. Dylan laughed and they exchanged a series of complex, multistage handshake-fist-bump-high-fives.
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#21. I swear on my life, one day I'll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
"I'm so glad," I said. "Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator."
"We need each other, then."
"Yes. But we already knew that, I think.
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#26. At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.
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#27. When we first met, I was convinced you were about to cut my throat. But scared as I was, there was this tiny voice in my head saying: If this is the last face you ever see, at least it's a beautiful one.
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#28. (Something I was beginning to discover about lying: The more I did it, the easier it got.)
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#29. Besides, horses were very large, with rippling muscles and big, grinding teeth, and they looked at me as if they knew I was afraid and were hoping for an opportunity to kick my head in.
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#30. Even ymbrynes can't touch them. In the stories, only special adepts called librarians can see and handle them - and a librarian hasn't been born for a thousand years. If the library exists, all Jack would find there are empty shelves.
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#31. If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!
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#32. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
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#33. Pointing into the ice, she said, "See that potted plant on the desk in there?" I saw. Nodded. "It's green now, preserved by the ice. But inside it's dead. And the moment that ice melts, it'll turn brown and wither into mush." She locked eyes with me. "I'm like that plant.
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#34. The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.
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#35. Every 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.
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#36. I am getting to what I am getting to! Millard snapped.
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#37. 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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#38. When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
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#39. Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out - I just try to embrace the better ideas that come along as my fingers are flying around the keyboard mid-draft!
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#40. 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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#41. No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.
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#42. I haven't known you too long, but I feel I know your heart, and it's a strong, true thing - a peculiar heart - and I trust you." She
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#43. How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
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#44. It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
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#45. I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless.
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#46. 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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#47. Slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
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#48. They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded them.
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#50. We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends.
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#51. I love sad stories," said Enoch. "Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.
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#52. It's not about destiny," I said, "but I do think there's balance in the world, and sometimes forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the right way. Miss
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#53. Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.
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#54. I 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.
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#56. ...there was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Not anywhere. That was the awful truth...
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#57. Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
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#58. Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
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#59. 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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#60. A blinding yellow track suit and fake gold chains.
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#61. Brains. Hearts. Lungs. Eyes. All pickled in some kind of home-brewed formaldehyde,
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#62. 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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#63. So we rowed, our only hope that we could reach the mainland before nightfall reached us.
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#64. You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.
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#66. I felt ashamed for having been jealous of his life, considering the price he'd paid for it, and I tried to feel lucky for the safe and unextraordinary one that I had done nothing to deserve
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#67. 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.
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#68. Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.
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#69. 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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#70. Were you just smoking and chewing tobacco at the same time?"
"What are you my mom?"
"Do I look like I blow truckers for food stamps?
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#71. In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty - an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present.
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#72. And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.
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#73. 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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#74. She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I was left with the choice of wearing the pants either around my ankles or hitched up to my bellybutton. I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup.
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#77. all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I
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#78. How are you? she asked. It was a question that would've required some college-level math and about an hour of discussion to answer. I
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#79. The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.
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#80. I do," he replied.
And that was all it took.
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#81. 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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#83. I love being peculiar, Jacob- It's the very core of who i am. But there are days i wish i could turn it off.
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#85. What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
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#86. 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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#87. They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how we interfere." "Which is why you can't go back and kill baby Hitler to stop the war from happening," said Enoch. "History heals itself. Isn't that interesting?
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#88. Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her hair back could make me want to follow her, help her, do anything she asked. I was hopelessly outmatched.
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#89. We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
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#90. 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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#91. There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.
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#92. That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
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#93. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
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#94. He was full of weird, chipper energy, like an overcaffeinated Cub Scout leader.
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#95. 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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#96. We're peculiar," he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. "Aren't you?
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#97. Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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#98. 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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#99. pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he'd hung from the mirror couldn't mask.
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#100. Just because they knew it was lost didn't mean they knew how to let it go.
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