Ransom Riggs Quotes

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

~ Ransom Riggs

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

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

~ Ransom Riggs

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

~ Ransom Riggs

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 very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor people

~ Ransom Riggs

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

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

~ Ransom Riggs

What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?

~ Ransom Riggs

No one here is embarrassed of their gift.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!

~ Ransom Riggs

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

~ Ransom Riggs

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

~ Ransom Riggs

Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and grew a rose bush heavy with red flowers right where they stood. Hugh's bees rushed to pollinate it, and while they were occupied– as if she'd done it just so they could have a moment to themselves– Fiona embraced him and whispered something in his ear, and Hugh nodded and whispered.

~ Ransom Riggs

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

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!

~ Ransom Riggs

What a beautiful day to go to hell

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.

~ Ransom Riggs

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

~ Ransom Riggs

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

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

~ Ransom Riggs

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.

~ Ransom Riggs

You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.

~ Ransom Riggs

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

~ Ransom Riggs

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

~ Ransom Riggs

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human

~ Ransom Riggs

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

I cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself.I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs.

~ Ransom Riggs

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

~ Ransom Riggs

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

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone?

~ Ransom Riggs

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 take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

~ Ransom Riggs

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

~ Ransom Riggs

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

~ Ransom Riggs