Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”

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

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204. “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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205. “He was cross-examining my subconscious .”

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “I was the perfect automaton: blessed with ability but cursed with ignorance.”

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211. “What a peculiar lot you are, even for peculiars.”

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212. “Claire mumbled into Bronwyn’s lap, “Tell us a story, Wyn. I’m scared and I don’t like this at all and I think I’d like to hear a story instead.”

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213. “He’s wearing a costume,” I whispered to Emma. Then, to the guy: “She doesn’t see a lot of movies.” “A costume?” Emma scrunched her brow. “But he’s a grown man.”

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214. “It was unconscious, immobilized, totally vulnerable. It would’ve been easy to climb onto the ice and drive the point of an icicle into the hollow’s skull – and if anyone else had known it was here, I’m sure they would’ve done just that. But something stopped me. It was no threat to anyone now, this creature.”

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215. “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?”

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216. “War is a germ that can rarely be contained.”

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217. “Even here – running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death – even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace.”

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218. “Notes are absolutely essential to the process.”

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219. “Get ahold of yourself, girl...”

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220. “And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake.”

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221. “Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches?”

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222. “How could I possibly stay here and leave behind everthing I’d known? But after all I’d learned, how could I go home?”

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223. “Oh for heaven’s sake, you provincial boob, I can speak better English than you can.”

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224. “Such was the way the sad world turned.”

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225. “They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.”

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226. “I think I’m in love.”

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227. “I hate fleeing as much as anyone,” I said, “but Emma and I look like nineteenth-century axe murderers, and you’re a dog who wears glasses. We’re bound to be noticed.”

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228. “In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles.”

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229. “We all scooted closer on our stools, like it was story-time in some morbid kindergarten.”

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230. “But even grown-ups have elders who know better.”

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231. “Despair was tangible here, weighting down everything, the very air.”

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232. “Besides, horses were very large, with rippling muscles and big, grinding teeth, and they looked at me as if they knew I was afraid and were hoping for an opportunity to kick my head in.”

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233. “Despite everything, this peculiar life was what I’d always wanted. Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”

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234. “Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor.”

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235. “I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions – 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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236. “Addison had no filter; he always said just what he meant.”

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237. “What’re you going to do,” he said, “pollinate it to death?”

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238. “It’s not that nothing else is possible, but nothing else was nurtured.”

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239. “There was an iron will inside me, I knew that now, and I hoped I could hang on to it even as my life grew softer.”

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240. “The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.”

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241. “She’d been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it.”

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242. “The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.”

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243. “Kev was out running an errand, and because asking one of his drunken regulars to chaperone me seemed like a bad idea, I went into the nearest shop to ask someone who was at least gainfully employed. The door read FISHMONGER. I pushed it open to find myself cowering before a bearded giant in a blood-soaked apron. He left off decapitating fish to glare at me, dripping cleaver in hand, and I vowed never again to discriminate against the intoxicated. “What.”

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244. “He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn’t laugh at him.”

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245. “Maybe,” she said. “Maybe. But now you’re making promises you might not be able to keep, and that’s how people in love get very badly hurt.”

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246. “By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might’ve felt better if I hadn’t slept at all.”

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247. “I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma’s confidence was what held everything together.”

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248. “Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. A curlicued swing set in a cratered playground. The horrors piled up, incomprehensible, the bombers now and then dropping flares to light it all with the pure, shining white of a thousand camera flashes. As if to say: Look. Look what we made.”

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249. “Fictions, whoppers and paradiddles.”

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250. “It was a strange and sour thing to know that such hatred had been directed at me.”

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