Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We’re peculiar,” he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. “Aren’t you?”

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102. “Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.”

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103. “I swear on my life, one day I’ll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.”

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104. “There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchman at the end of the world.”

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105. “Because if Grandpa Portman wasn’t honorable and good, I wasn’t sure anyone could be.”

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106. “They were the gods of this strange little heaven, and I was their guest.”

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107. “Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat, Enoch deadpanned. We are saved.”

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108. “I felt it, too: the dread, the weight of the horrors we’d seen, which replayed themselves in an endless, lurid loop in my mind. But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse anymore 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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109. “Still, I could have been kinder.” She frowned, her eyes wandering. “Sibling relationships can be complex. I wonder, sometimes, if my own actions had some bearing upon the paths my brothers chose. Could I have been a better sister to them? Perhaps, as a young ymbryne, I was too focused on myself.”

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110. “That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”

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111. “It felt like we were claiming the world for ourselves and our lives as our own.”

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112. “Pointing into the ice, she said, “See that potted plant on the desk in there?” I saw. Nodded. “It’s green now, preserved by the ice. But inside it’s dead. And the moment that ice melts, it’ll turn brown and wither into mush.” She locked eyes with me. “I’m like that plant.”

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113. “They had a million questions for me, and, far away from Miss Peregrine, I could answer them frankly. What was my world like? What did people eat, drink, wear? When would sickness and death be overcome by science?”

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114. “There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.”

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115. “I was left with the choice of wearing the pants either around my ankles or hitched up to my bellybutton. I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup.”

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116. “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.”

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117. “Then Bronwyn said, “I believe in you, Jacob. 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.”

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118. “They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood.”

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119. “I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn’t seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she’s someone I think I’d like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn’t be anyway; walking is for poor people.”

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120. “My parents treated me like a breakable heirloom, afraid to fight or fret in front of me least I shatter.”

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121. “Then, a few years later, when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.”

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122. “I searched for the words, but they’d gotten shy.”

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123. “We are echolocators,” Joel-and-Peter said. They were also, apparently, very sharp of hearing.”

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124. “In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they’d been seeking. It’s believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement – feeding on stray animals, living in isolation – and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation. If a hollow gorges itself on enough peculiars, it becomes a wight.”

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125. “There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”

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126. “Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?”

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127. “In that moment I was deeply grateful to the Gypsies, and for the simplemindedness of the animal part of my brain; that a hot meal and 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. Then.”

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128. “How many times must I tell you,” She called after him, “polite persons do not take their supper in the nude!”

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129. “At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.”

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130. “It’s a brave new world, Mr. Portman, And we’ll be right behind you.”

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131. “What you are is three-quarters stupid.”

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132. “Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.”

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133. “Likewise the boy who was dressed to the nines in a muddy but finely tailored suit and stove-in top hat, his face drawn and haggard from lack of sleep, for he hadn’t allowed himself any in days, so afraid was he of his dreams.”

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134. “All I could think was that grandfathers were supposed to die in beds, in hushed places humming with machines, not in heaps on the sodden reeking ground with ants marching over them, a brass letter opener clutched in one trembling hand.”

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135. “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.”

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136. “Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.”

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137. “Yeah, he was a psychobabble-spewing prick. But that didn’t make him wrong.”

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138. “I knew then that, from now on, every word that passed between us would hurt, would be wrapped up with and marked by the pain of this moment, and that I needed to pull away now or it would never stop. So I nodded sadly, hugged her one more time, and retreated to a corner to sleep, because I was very, very tired.”

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139. “I thought I’d never understand boys,” said Bronwyn, shaking her head. “But now I think I’ve got it. They’re all idiots!”

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140. “But I swore to myself that we’d find our friends and our ymbryne, no matter the cost, even if there were only bodies to recover – even if it meant adding our own to the pile.”

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141. “Even under ordinary circumstances, I still might find a way to live an extraordinary life.”

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142. “I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap – and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.”

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143. “I wouldn’t leave her behind for anything. And not because I was noble or brave or chivalrous. I’m not any of those things. I was afraid that leaving her behind would rip me in half. And.”

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144. “Armageddon chickens.”

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145. “Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.”

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146. “You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”

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147. “I wanted to tell her then that I loved her. I thought that might help, by grounding us in something we were sure about rather than everything we weren’t.”

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148. “Inside, neatly arranged and labeled, were a carved coconut husk, a whale vertebra fashioned into a comb, a small stone axe, and a few other items, the usefulness of which wasn’t immediately obvious. A placard on the glass read Housewares Used by Peculiars on the Island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, South Pacific Region, circa 1750.”

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149. “It’s as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.”

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150. “When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.”

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