Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Armageddon chickens.”

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

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “It’s as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.”

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

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157. “They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.”

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158. “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.”

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159. “For amusement, they ingest whatever flammable liquids are at hand and sing badly at the top of their lungs.”

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160. “Just because I’m a capitalist doesn’t mean I’m a black-hearted bastard.”

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161. “There are peculiars all over the world,” she said, “though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were. Those who remain live in hiding, as we do.”

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162. “Perhaps she was born in the wrong body.”

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163. “He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchman at the end of the world.”

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164. “That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure about that,” Emma said. “Only kidding!” said Horace. “It’s to buy clothes, of course.”

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165. “That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. The cooperation part was an unofficial brains-for-brawn trade we’d worked out in which I helped him not fail English and he helped me not get killed by the roided-out sociopaths who prowled the halls of our high school.”

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166. “They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.”

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167. “I’m so happy you’re here,” he said. “It’s proof, I think, that the stars are beginning to align for us.”

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168. “That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation... That he made my parents deeply uncomfortable was merely a bonus... He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.”

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169. “There are lots of things I don’t know about you, but I want to.” “I know what you mean,” I said. “I feel like we know each other so well in some ways, but in others it’s like we just met.”

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170. “I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.”

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171. “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.”

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172. “We’re peculiar. Aren’t you?”

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173. “Flesh on the outside, metal on the inside.”

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174. “It had become one of the defining truths of my life that, no matter how I tried to keep them flattened, two-dimensional, jailed in paper and ink, there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life.”

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175. “I’d never met anyone with Emma’s brash confidence. Everything about her exuded it: the way she carried herself, with shoulders thrown back; the hard set of her teeth when she made up her mind about something; the way she ended every sentence with a declarative period, never a question mark. It was infectious and I loved it, and I had to fight the sudden urge to kiss her, right here in front of everyone.”

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176. “Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.”

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177. “Maybe lots of people go through life never knowing they’re peculiar.”

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178. “You’re here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.”

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179. “And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue.”

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180. “These strange-looking people weren’t peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present.”

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181. “Miracle. Curse. I hadn’t quite worked out the difference.”

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182. “It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it.”

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183. “There were more like her, which meant that – perhaps – peculiar society could be made a safer, saner place, no longer ruled by the shortsighted whims of prideful men.”

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184. “He proceeded to give us directions in a lilting accent, which I found enormously entertaining. I loved hearing Welsh people talk, even if half of what they said was incomprehensible to me.”

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185. “What a spoiled, ungrateful ass I was.”

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186. “I didn’t know you could fry toast,” I remarked, to which Kev replied that there wasn’t a food he was aware of that couldn’t be improved by frying.”

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187. “No one here is embarrassed of their gift.”

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188. “She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn’t bulletproof. She might have been peculiar, but she was also human.”

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189. “That house is such an emotionally loaded place for you, just being inside was enough to trigger a stress reaction.”

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190. “It was the second time in three days that I’d taken up space normally reserved for a dead body. It seemed like the universe was trying to tell me something and not in a terribly subtle way.”

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191. “There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by someone I loved.”

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192. “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.”

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193. “I should warn you: this is an ambrosia den, and there’ll be peculiars in there who are lit out of their minds. Don’t talk to them, and whatever you do, don’t look them in the eye. I know people who’ve been blinded that way.”

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194. “He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”

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195. “Had I been in some kind of psychotic haze all morning? Was I in one now?”

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196. “Never mind compassion! Fie on loyalty! If you’re as intelligent and ambitious a fellow as I think you are, then you’ll recognize an extraordinary opportunity for advancement when you see one.”

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197. “He was cross-examining my subconscious .”

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198. “I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back from the underworld only to realize that the world above is every bit as damned as the one below.”

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199. “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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200. “When the smoke cleared, we saw the chickens still coming toward us, unhurt and seemingly unsurprised by the blast, a little cloud of feathers wafting around them like fat snowflakes. Enoch’s jaw fell open. “Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!” he said. “Only when they get excited,” said.”

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