In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they’d been seeking. It’s believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement – feeding on stray animals, living in isolation – and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation. If a hollow gorges itself on enough peculiars, it becomes a wight.

— Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs Quotes

It’s not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. It was the strangest thing.

— Ransom Riggs

We’re all riddled with holes, and there were days when I would’ve done anything to patch mine, if just for a while.

— Ransom Riggs

Take your time. I brought a novel!

— Ransom Riggs

Just because no one remembers your name doesn’t mean your life wasn’t worth something.

— Ransom Riggs

The past is so much less terrifying than the future. Even the most terrible era of the past is at least knowable. It can be studied. The world survived it. But in the present, one never knows when the whole world could come to a terrible, crashing end.

— Ransom Riggs

An octopus in a tuxedo is still an octopus.

— Ransom Riggs

I think dreams contain lots of meaning. But that meaning doesn’t have to be literally true.

— Ransom Riggs

My brain, as ever, was a hope-making machine.

— Ransom Riggs

You mean more to me than all the birds in the sky and the heavens above them. If you love me, I hope I have deserved it.

— Ransom Riggs

Oh, hush,” Emma said, and then she caught me looking and smiled. That smile – my God – it lit me up from the inside.

— Ransom Riggs

Travel is crucial to one’s development. Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.

— Ransom Riggs

Everyone must be allowed to air their ideas, even if they are misguided.

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But now that we’re in the present, it’s different. I’m getting older, and for the first time since I can remember, every day I live is one I’ll never live again. So, I’m going to take at least one picture every day to remember it by. Even if it’s not very good.

— Ransom Riggs

Nobody in this world just wants to help.

— Ransom Riggs

War is a germ that can rarely be contained. It would surely spread.

— Ransom Riggs

Sometimes imperfect situations must be tolerated in order to achieve a greater good.

— Ransom Riggs

But luck isn’t something you can depend upon, and my mistake was thinking I could dive in again and everything would work out somehow.

— Ransom Riggs

They say it takes seven years for all the cells in your body to replace themselves. It doesn’t happen all at once, of course. You get an entirely new skin every three weeks. New blood every six months. A new liver every few years. Life changes are like that, too: Some parts of your life can change enormously while others seem frozen in amber.

— Ransom Riggs

Our worth is measured by how we treat the people we love – something my grandfather used to say – and the blunt truth was that I loved my peculiar family more.

— Ransom Riggs

It seems I’ve gone and gotten myself shot.

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