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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.Ransom Riggs
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At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.Ransom Riggs
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I'd never asked what year it was here-1492? 1750?-though to the animals I guess it hardly mattered. This was a safe place apart from the world of people, and only in the world of people did the year make any difference.Ransom Riggs
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You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.Ransom Riggs
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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?Ransom Riggs
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She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,Ransom Riggs
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Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.Ransom Riggs
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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
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At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.Ransom Riggs
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A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.Ransom Riggs
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Everything happens for a reason.Ransom Riggs
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Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.Ransom Riggs
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I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - EnochRansom Riggs
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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.Ransom Riggs
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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
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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
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They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.Ransom Riggs
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They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.Ransom Riggs
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What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.Ransom Riggs