Ransom Riggs Quotes

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

~ Ransom Riggs

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

I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

~ Ransom Riggs

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

~ Ransom Riggs

When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and to have your life made unrecognised by it, to come out of all that the honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be - THAT was magical.

~ Ransom Riggs

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.

~ Ransom Riggs

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. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

...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

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

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 inside, day by day, from regret.

~ Ransom Riggs

anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

~ Ransom Riggs

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

~ Ransom Riggs

One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

~ Ransom Riggs

Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.

~ Ransom Riggs

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

~ Ransom Riggs

They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.

~ Ransom Riggs

They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.

~ Ransom Riggs

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

~ Ransom Riggs

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.

~ Ransom Riggs