Jacob Portman Quotes

“Maybe. Maybe there was a way. And then things could be so good.
My brain was a hope-making machine.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“Good gravy,” said Elmer. “You’re getting a real crash course, then.”
“That’s for sure.”
“It’s definitely more crash than course,” said Enoch.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“I told him I had another statement to make and then held up my middle finger and walked out.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. The cooperation part was an unofficial brains-for-brawn trade we'd worked out in which I helped him not fail English and he helped me not get killed by the roided-out sociopaths who prowled the halls of our high school.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. (Jacob Portman in Hollow City - Chapter 11)”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“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, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children