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Hollow City

: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

Read the sequel to the New York Times #1 best-selling book. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, staring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, E

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Ransom Riggs (18)

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.’”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Nightmare, Curiosity

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

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, nightmares, strange, Life, Miss-Peregrines

“I’m here - I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

Tagged: Here, Staying, not leaving, Stay, Togetherness

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

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Dreams, nightmares

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Feelings, Feeling Better, Laughing

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Gone

“We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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“I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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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, amazon.com

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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.”

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“I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between…”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”

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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, amazon.com

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“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it…”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

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“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Ransom Riggs

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

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

Tagged: Ransom Riggs