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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
“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.”
“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.”
“...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.”
“Sometimes it's better not to look back.”
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”
“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
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