Ransom Riggs Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ransom Riggs on Wise Famous Quotes.
That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself to murder and cannibalism.
The bird only keeps good things about the future to herself, but you can bet we hear all the brown-trouser bits.
How many times must I tell you," She called after him, "polite persons do not take their supper in the nude!
It was like robbing a bank: getting the money was only half the job. Then you had to get away with the money.
The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don't know which side you're on until it's too late.
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.
Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.
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.
With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The
Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor.
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.
Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.
He was scared of us, and that, more than anything else, made me scared of him. His fear made him unpredictable.
It was easy to believe that everything was just as the children left it, as if time had stopped the night the died.
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.
Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?
And suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being.
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?
I'd felt so many things since our journey began - joy, fear, hope, horror - but until now, I'd never once felt alone.
Her flame with a clap of her hands. Bronwyn dropped the boy and he stumbled away. The Gypsies fled back to their wagons or into the woods.
I love sad stories," said Enoch. "Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.
Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, RUN! Bang, bang, BANG goes the farmer's gun He'll get by without his rabbit pie, so Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, RUN!
There are peculiars all over the world," she said, "though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were.
I had slain my demons already, but the victories were fleeting; others had risen up quickly to replace them. My
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.
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.
He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.
If even outcasts and downtrodden folk like yourselves can't muster a bit of compassion for others, then there's no hope for this world.
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.
There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.
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.
Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered.
"Famous last words," I muttered.
all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I
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.
The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.
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.
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.
There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by someone I loved.
I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.
I didn't know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.