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Quotes from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — Ransom Riggs

born 1979 United States

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When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

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

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

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.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

When I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

I didn't know how to respond. How do you say I'm sorry your father didn't love you enough(YEAH RIGHT) to your own dad? I couldn't, so instead, I just said goodnight and headed upstairs to bed.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something […] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

All I could think was that grandfathers were supposed to die in beds, in hushed places humming with machines, not in heaps on the sodden reeking ground with ants marching over them, a brass letter opener clutched in one trembling hand.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

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

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ransom Riggs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.