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

“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

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“...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.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. 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

“She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"

"What's the capital of Burma?"

"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"

"Good! When's your birthday?"

"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“To some it might’ve seemed callous, the way she boxed up her pain and set it aside, but I knew her well enough now to understand. She had a heart the size of France, and the lucky few whom she loved with it were loved with every square inch—but its size made it dangerous, too. If she let it feel everything, she’d be wrecked. So she had to tame it, shush it, shut it up. Float the worst pains off to an island that was quickly filling with them, where she would go to live one day.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“And it occured to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“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

“Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“What a beautiful day to go to hell”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by someone I loved.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“Ahh,” Sharon said airily from the corner, “the sweet lies lovers tell …”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“my brain is a hope-making engine.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I've been shucked and gone to heaven.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. Almost insanity. "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Maybe you should just press the button”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“WICKED is good”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Good that.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner