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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) QUOTES

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) QUOTES

1 " If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

2 " ...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

3 " I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor people "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

4 " She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

5 " I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

6 " What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take? "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

7 " No one here is embarrassed of their gift. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

8 " Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace! "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

9 " That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

10 " ..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

11 " But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

12 " It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

13 " It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

14 " They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

15 " Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

16 " Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

17 " I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

18 " I cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself.
I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

19 " They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities. "

― Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

20 " 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 , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)