Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Even under ordinary circumstances, I still might find a way to live an extraordinary life.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

155. “You could never understand what it’s like, being this close to death all the time. And.”

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

— Ransom Riggs

157. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

158. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

159. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

161. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

167. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

168. “We’re peculiar. Aren’t you?”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

171. “I was moved by this new idea of my grandfather, not as a paranoiac gun nut or a secretive philanderer or a man who wasn’t there for his family, but as a wandering knight who risked his life for others, living out of cars and cheap motels, stalking lethal shadows, coming home shy a few bullets and marked with bruises he could never quite explain and nightmares he couldn’t talk about. For his many sacrifice he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.”

— Ransom Riggs

172. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

173. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

174. “School cafeterias had long ranked among my least favorite places on the planet. They were loud, ugly, they stank, and they were filled – as this one was – with cliques of anxious teenagers swirling around in a complex social dance I could never quite figure out the steps to.”

— Ransom Riggs

175. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

178. “The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

180. “The bird only keeps good things about the future to herself, but you can bet we hear all the brown-trouser bits.”

— Ransom Riggs

181. “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

182. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

183. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

186. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

188. “Oh, lovely. Improvised suicide.”

— Ransom Riggs

189. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

190. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

191. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

193. “What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

195. “Because from the day I met her I’d known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that make me crazy? Or was my heart too easily conquered?”

— Ransom Riggs

196. “Someone make it die!”

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs

199. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

200. “I needed all of it. Both families, both families, both Jacobs – all of Emma. I knew I would have to chose, and I was afraid it would split me in half.”

— Ransom Riggs