“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, amazon.com
“What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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…”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“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.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com