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You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty."
"Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied — Ransom Riggs

In the Old Peculiar language, the word ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) means "revolution" or "circuit. — Ransom Riggs

As he always says, the day there's no time for manners, the world's lost to us anyway. — Ransom Riggs

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

Oh, lovely. Improvised suicide. — Ransom Riggs

Please disrobe at once. — Ransom Riggs

Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be. — Ransom Riggs

Nasty Hitler! Stop this horrible war and go right away altogether! — Ransom Riggs

So please enjoy these Tales - before a crackling fire on a chilly night, ideally, — Ransom Riggs

Present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. — Ransom Riggs

Survive, yes - but at what cost? — Ransom Riggs

Jacob, inspector of shadows, miraculous interpreter of squirmy gut feelings, seer and slayer of real and actual monsters - — Ransom Riggs

Millard! Are you all right? Say something!"
"I must apologize," he said. "It seems I've gone and gotten myself shot. — Ransom Riggs

The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs — Cynthia Hand

What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things rigt on te first go? — Ransom Riggs

She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away. — Ransom Riggs

You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded. — Ransom Riggs

How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude. — Ransom Riggs

Such was the way the sad world turned. — Ransom Riggs

Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird. — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The — Ransom Riggs

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster — Ransom Riggs

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks. — Bobby Riggs

Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved. — Ransom Riggs

Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. — 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

From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom. — Ransom Riggs

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

I swear on my life, one day I'll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell. — Ransom Riggs

He was lucky in a way. It wasn't long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines. — 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

And if he's scared of us, Jacob..." She narrowed her eyes at me. "That means there's something to be scared of. — Ransom Riggs

He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets. — Ransom Riggs

I am getting to what I am getting to! Millard snapped. — Ransom Riggs

Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches? — 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

It's called Stockholm syndrome," I said. "When people start to sympathize with their captors. — Ransom Riggs

By the time I wanted to leave, it would be too late. She was a siren. — Ransom Riggs

Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive? — Ransom Riggs

And suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being. — 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

For you, you idiot! I love you!" I — Ransom Riggs

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs

my brain is a hope-making engine. — Ransom Riggs

Just because they knew it was lost didn't mean they knew how to let it go. — Ransom Riggs

The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities. — Ransom Riggs

Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

What a beautiful day to go to hell — Ransom Riggs

She'd been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it. — Ransom Riggs

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small. — Ransom Riggs

No one here is embarrassed of their gift. — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I — Ransom Riggs

There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain. — Ransom Riggs

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

Even here - running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death - even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace. — Ransom Riggs

This is a madhouse!" said Horace. Deirdre laughed. "No, doveling. It's a menagerie. — Ransom Riggs

We're peculiar. Aren't you? — 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

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it. — Marlon Riggs

Sometimes it's better not to look back. — Ransom Riggs

walking is for poor people. — Ransom Riggs

That house is such an emotionally loaded place for you, just being inside was enough to trigger a stress reaction. — Ransom Riggs

So we rowed, our only hope that we could reach the mainland before nightfall reached us. — Ransom Riggs

He was military-trained, dummy. A stone-cold badass. He had a walk-in closet full of sawed-off shotguns. The man was Rambo compared to you. — Ransom Riggs

If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn't have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe. — Ransom Riggs

We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe. — Ransom Riggs

Nowhere am I deadlier than in a field of wildflowers. — Ransom Riggs

The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you. — Ransom Riggs

And I realized that leaving wouldn't be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. — Ransom Riggs

Mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon. — Ransom Riggs

Sometimes I can't decide whether you're completely mad or some sort of miracle, — Ransom Riggs

We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world. — Ransom Riggs

What you are is three-quarters stupid. — Ransom Riggs

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre! — Chandler Riggs

We'll figure something out," She replied.
Millard sighed. "Oh lovely. Improvised suicide. — Ransom Riggs

there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. — Ransom Riggs

I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar. — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out. — Ransom Riggs

It's not that nothing else is possible, but nothing else was nurtured. — Ransom Riggs

It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them. — Ransom Riggs

When he arrived in Wales, my grandfather had been a young, frightened boy who didn't speak the language, a boy hunted by two kinds of monsters: — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

I do," he replied.
And that was all it took. — Ransom Riggs

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins. — Ransom Riggs

The man was an emotional Fort Knox. — Ransom Riggs

I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance' ... — Ransom Riggs

Hat an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go. — Ransom Riggs

a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. We — Ransom Riggs

He was full of weird, chipper energy, like an overcaffeinated Cub Scout leader. — Ransom Riggs

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. — Ransom Riggs

These strange-looking people weren't peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present. — Ransom Riggs

I searched for the words, but they'd gotten shy. — Ransom Riggs

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment. — Ransom Riggs

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination. — Marlon Riggs

metabolism-wrecking medications — Ransom Riggs

He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend. — Ransom Riggs