Top 300 Ransom Riggs Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.”

— Ransom Riggs

252. “What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?”

— Ransom Riggs

253. “She pressed the knife harder against my throat, her hand shaking. She was scared – which meant she was dangerous.”

— Ransom Riggs

254. “Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

255. “We’re all riddled with holes, and there were days when I would’ve done anything to patch mine, if just for a while.”

— Ransom Riggs

256. “Holmes says that “a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use” – and little else.”

— Ransom Riggs

257. “UK – that was Britain.”

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258. “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.”

— Ransom Riggs

259. “I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover.”

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260. “She slid her arms around me and kissed me back, and I was overwhelmed by a tingling warmth that flooded my brain and a sudden sensation of being out of my body, like I had floated up to the ceiling and was looking down on the soft, beautiful face of this amazing girl and my friends and the whole scene, and I wondered how it was that such an exquisite moment had appeared in my life.”

— Ransom Riggs

261. “There’s an art to fleeing casually. It’s not easy, running from something that might kill you while not attracting stares.”

— Ransom Riggs

262. “But in general that is how we prefer to be thought of, for it tends to keep away unwanted visitors. These days fewer and fewer people believe in those things – fairies and goblins and all such nonsense – and thus common folk no longer make much of an effort to seek us out. That makes our lives a good bit easier. Ghost stories and scary old houses have served us well, too – though not, apparently, in your case.”

— Ransom Riggs

263. “They also – finally – let me quit Smart Aid. “Feeling better” became my new job.”

— Ransom Riggs

264. “Dogs can’t speak English. Nor any human language – save, in one notable exception, Luxembourgish, which is only comprehensible to bankers and Luxembourgers, and therefore hardly of any use at all. No, you’ve eaten something disagreeable and are having a nightmare, that’s all.”

— Ransom Riggs

265. “I expected as much from you, girl,” said Caul. “You’re so typical of ymbryne-raised peculiars: no ambition, and no sense at all but one of entitlement. Quiet yourself, I am speaking to the male.”

— Ransom Riggs

266. “The bridge was hollow, and a hollow was inside the bridge.”

— Ransom Riggs

267. “If my body was cold in the night mist, I didn’t feel it. If the sea roared in my ears, I didn’t hear it. If the rock I sat on was sharp and jagged, I hardly noticed. Everything outside the two of us was a distraction.”

— Ransom Riggs

268. “Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.”

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269. “I felt even more cheated when I realized that most of Grandpa Portman’s best stories couldn’t possibly be true. The tallest tales were always about his childhood, like how he was born in Poland but at twelve had been shipped off to a children’s home in Wales. When I would ask why he had to leave his parents, his answer was always the same: because the monsters were after him. Poland was simply rotten with them, he said.”

— Ransom Riggs

270. “And I knew that the minute I got cocky – the minute I stopped being pants-wettingly terrified of hollowgast – something terrible would happen.”

— Ransom Riggs

271. “Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before – the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall – my experience of it would be new.”

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272. “Those who escaped the noose settled here, at the very bottom, the absolute edge of peculiar society. Exiled from the outcasts of outcasts.”

— Ransom Riggs

273. “One of the peculiar children’s perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.”

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274. “Beyond our grim circle, the underground station looked like the aftermath of a nightclub bombing. Steam from burst pipes shrieked forth in ghostly curtains. Splintered monitors swung broken-necked from the ceiling. A sea of shattered glass spread all the way to the tracks, flashing in the hysterical strobe of red emergency lights like an acre-wide disco ball.”

— Ransom Riggs

275. “I think dreams contain lots of meaning. But that meaning doesn’t have to be literally true.”

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276. “You mean more to me than all the birds in the sky and the heavens above them. If you love me, I hope I have deserved it.”

— Ransom Riggs

277. “An octopus in a tuxedo is still an octopus.”

— Ransom Riggs

278. “The elder Miss Finch preferred to stay a finch most all of the time. Which was just as well, really. She never was much of a conversationalist.”

— Ransom Riggs

279. “Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that’s just for paperbacks.” -Sharon, Library of Souls.”

— Ransom Riggs

280. “With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we’d never work apart. The.”

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281. “My brain, as ever, was a hope-making machine.”

— Ransom Riggs

282. “Just because no one remembers your name doesn’t mean your life wasn’t worth something.”

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283. “My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.”

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284. “Oozing Street was oddly cheerful, with flower boxes hanging from windowsills and houses painted bright colors; even the slaughterhouse that anchored it was an inviting robin’s-egg blue, and I resisted an odd impulse to go inside and ask for a tour.”

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285. “You’re right, Dad. Dr. Golan did help me. But that doesn’t mean he has to control every aspect of my life. I mean, Jesus, you and mom might as well buy me one of those little bracelets that says, What Would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?”

— Ransom Riggs

286. “Weatherman says,” Kev scoffed. “I wouldn’t trust that silly bugger to know if it’s raining now.”

— Ransom Riggs

287. “I didn’t say EAT him!”

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288. “You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.”

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289. “In the end, our real home had always been one another. And a real home was all I’d ever wanted.”

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290. “Don’t worry, Xavier’s on the job,” said Sharon. We heard a squeak and looked down to see the rat in question with a piece of cheese in its mouth. Sharon picked him up and scolded him. “Keys, I said, not cheese!”

— Ransom Riggs

291. “It’s not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. It was the strangest thing.”

— Ransom Riggs

292. “But now that we’re in the present, it’s different. I’m getting older, and for the first time since I can remember, every day I live is one I’ll never live again. So, I’m going to take at least one picture every day to remember it by. Even if it’s not very good.”

— Ransom Riggs

293. “The past is so much less terrifying than the future. Even the most terrible era of the past is at least knowable. It can be studied. The world survived it. But in the present, one never knows when the whole world could come to a terrible, crashing end.”

— Ransom Riggs

294. “Travel is crucial to one’s development. Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.”

— Ransom Riggs

295. “But they never did. And he was still crying when his throat turned to stone like the rest of him.”

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296. “Take your time. I brought a novel!”

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297. “Our worth is measured by how we treat the people we love – something my grandfather used to say – and the blunt truth was that I loved my peculiar family more.”

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298. “Nobody in this world just wants to help.”

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299. “It seems I’ve gone and gotten myself shot.”

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300. “War is a germ that can rarely be contained. It would surely spread.”

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