Quotes by Ransom Riggs

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.

Book

Monday

Years

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you’d just stayed in bed?

Climbing

Finding Yourself

Wish

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

Baby

Girl

War

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who – we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

Children

Home

Real

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I’ve always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

Doors

Other Worlds

Writing

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Ordinary

Peculiar

Would Be

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

Forever

Half

Would Be

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

Dream

Nice

Sticks

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I’d just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I’d need to own them all.

Beautiful

Book

Thinking

I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Born

Century

Cheated

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Beautiful

Believe

Book

Born

Boys

Brother

Care

Century

Cheated

Children

Climbing

Don't Care

Doors

Dream

Easy

Echoes

Failing

Failure

Fairy Tale

Finding Yourself

Flirting

Flying

Forever

Form

Fun

Girl

Half

Heart

Home

House

Hurt

Ideas

Ifs

Knocking

Life

Looks

Mean

Memories

Monday

Mother

My Heart

Myth

Nice

One Day

Ordinary

Other Worlds

Peculiar

Perspective

Real

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Quotes by Ransom Riggs

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.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you’d just stayed in bed?

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who – we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I’ve always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

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