Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

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2. “An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.”

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3. “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”

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4. “I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

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5. “Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

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6. “Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”

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7. “When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”

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8. “Sometimes it’s better not to look back.”

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9. “Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”

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10. “I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

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11. “What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.”

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12. “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.”

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13. “From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom.”

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14. “I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn’t a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn’t we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”

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15. “I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.”

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16. “Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”

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17. “No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.”

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18. “We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”

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19. “It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it.”

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20. “How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”

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21. “Ardet nec consumitur,” Melina said. “Burned but not destroyed.”

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22. “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”

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23. “She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long.”

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24. “If you must fail,” he said grandly, “fail spectacularly!”

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25. “Travel is crucial to one’s development,” said Miss Peregrine, her tone strangely defensive. “Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant. It’s important the children learn that our society is not the center of the peculiar universe.”

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26. “That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”

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27. “Buy one get none free!”

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28. “If I’d kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?”

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29. “I haven’t known you too long, but I feel I know your heart, and it’s a strong, true thing – a peculiar heart – and I trust you.” She.”

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30. “Survive, yes – but at what cost?”

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31. “Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone?”

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32. “If you must fail, fail spectacularly!”

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33. “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”

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

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35. “I knew there was something peculiar about you,” she said. “And I mean that as the highest compliment.”

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36. “Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?”

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37. “Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you’d just stayed in bed?”

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38. “I love sad stories,” said Enoch. “Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.”

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39. “I’d always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.”

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40. “They may love you,” she whispered, “but they’ll never understand.”

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41. “Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”

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42. “A world so afraid of otherness.”

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43. “Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.”

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44. “I knew plenty of eighty-year-olds in Florida, and these kids acted nothing like them. It was as if the constance of their lives here, the unvarying days – this perpetual deathless summer – had arrested their emotions as well as their bodies, sealing them in their youth like Peter Pan and his Lost Boys.”

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45. “If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.”

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46. “Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!”

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47. “I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don’t know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.”

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48. “Let me see: There’s Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting together in Derbyshire on Saint Swithin’s Day of 1867; Miss Treecreeper I don’t remmeber where exactly – oh, and dear Miss Finch.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “I had always known the sky was full of mysteries – but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”

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