Abby > Abby's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“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, Hollow City

“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.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“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.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want you to know I love you and Mom, and I’m not doing any of this to hurt you.” “We love you, too, Jake, and if it’s drugs, or whatever it is, we don’t care. We’ll get you right again. Like I said, you’re confused.” “No, Dad. I’m peculiar.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
"I'm so glad," I said. "Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator."
"We need each other, then."
"Yes. But we already knew that, I think.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you’re six-five and have green hair and my grandfather doesn’t know you and owns lots of guns.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Buy one get none free!”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said.
"You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“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, Hollow City

“She put her arms around me again and we held each other for a long moment, her head on my shoulder, breath warm on my neck, and suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being. But then she pulled away and kissed my forehead and started back toward the others. 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.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City