“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“I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch”
Ransom Riggs, Hollow City“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“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it”
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“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, Hollow City“They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.”
Ransom Riggs, Hollow City“They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.”
Ransom Riggs, Hollow City“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, Library of Souls“I wanted to thank you," I said.She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said."You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.”
Ransom Riggs, Hollow City