Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs
Top 10 Best Quotes
“No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.”
“It had become one of the defining truths of my life that, no matter how I tried to keep them flattened, two-dimensional, jailed in paper and ink, there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life.”
“To some it might’ve seemed callous, the way she boxed up her pain and set it aside, but I knew her well enough now to understand. She had a heart the size of France, and the lucky few whom she loved with it were loved with every square inch—but its size made it dangerous, too. If she let it feel everything, she’d be wrecked. So she had to tame it, shush it, shut it up. Float the worst pains off to an island that was quickly filling with them, where she would go to live one day.”
“An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.”
“And it occured to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.”
“Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.”
“She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long.”
“Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It’s not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.”
“What a beautiful day to go to hell”
“Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.”
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Book Keywords:
love, promises, humour, pessimistic, hurt
