“Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt – my own, my father’s, and my grandfather’s, too. I tried my best to explain. “It’s not about destiny,” I said, “but I do think there’s balance in the world, and sometimes forces we don’t understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.”

“Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt – my own, my father’s, and my grandfather’s, too. I tried my best to explain. “It’s not about destiny,” I said, “but I do think there’s balance in the world, and sometimes forces we don’t understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.”

— Ransom Riggs