Quotes From "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" By Ransom Riggs

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it. Ransom Riggs

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

I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor people Ransom Riggs

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good. Ransom Riggs

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

But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. Ransom Riggs

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. Ransom Riggs

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. Ransom Riggs

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand. Ransom Riggs

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities. Ransom Riggs

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place. Ransom Riggs

I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind. Ransom Riggs

I cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself. I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs. Ransom Riggs

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities. Ransom Riggs

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave– that was magical. Ransom Riggs

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? Ransom Riggs

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries–but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was. Ransom Riggs

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets. Ransom Riggs

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs! Ransom Riggs

I knew there was something peculiar about you, " she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar. Ransom Riggs

I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door. Ransom Riggs

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me. Ransom Riggs

When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and to have your life made unrecognised by it, to come out of all that the honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be - THAT was magical. Ransom Riggs

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before. Ransom Riggs

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. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss. Ransom Riggs

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous. Ransom Riggs

...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

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention. Ransom Riggs

Anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. Ransom Riggs

He was cross-examining my subconscious . Ransom Riggs

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. Ransom Riggs

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance. Ransom Riggs