Ransom Riggs quote: "You're right, Dad. Dr. Golan did help me. But that doesn't mean he has to control every aspect of my life. I mean, Jesus, you and mom might as well buy me one of those little bracelets that says, 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?"

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
RANSOM RIGGS

As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do....
RANSOM RIGGS

I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I...
RANSOM RIGGS

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS

Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and du...
RANSOM RIGGS

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
RANSOM RIGGS

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid ...
RANSOM RIGGS

I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithfu...
RANSOM RIGGS

You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every s...
RANSOM RIGGS

I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
RANSOM RIGGS

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS

Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ...
RANSOM RIGGS

I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funn...
RANSOM RIGGS

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, wher...
RANSOM RIGGS

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.
RANSOM RIGGS

Buy one get none free!
RANSOM RIGGS

Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.
RANSOM RIGGS

He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS

What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
RANSOM RIGGS

Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you’re six-five and have green hair and my grandfathe...
RANSOM RIGGS

Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
RANSOM RIGGS

Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean y...
RANSOM RIGGS

I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want yo...
RANSOM RIGGS

Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words,"...
RANSOM RIGGS

That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than yo...
RANSOM RIGGS

Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's h...
RANSOM RIGGS

I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my h...
RANSOM RIGGS

The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
RANSOM RIGGS

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happe...
RANSOM RIGGS

We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importan...
RANSOM RIGGS

Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
RANSOM RIGGS

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

I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful an...
RANSOM RIGGS

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
RANSOM RIGGS

When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or...
RANSOM RIGGS

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
RANSOM RIGGS

Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing do...
RANSOM RIGGS

I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was some...
RANSOM RIGGS

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable b...
RANSOM RIGGS

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
RANSOM RIGGS

...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everyth...
RANSOM RIGGS

But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-ol...
RANSOM RIGGS

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of s...
RANSOM RIGGS

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II,...
RANSOM RIGGS

Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?" RANSOM RIGGS

That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you ch...
RANSOM RIGGS

How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
RANSOM RIGGS

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
RANSOM RIGGS

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist
RANSOM RIGGS

anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
RANSOM RIGGS

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure...
RANSOM RIGGS

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who la...
RANSOM RIGGS

But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse ...
RANSOM RIGGS

Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.
RANSOM RIGGS

I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin...
RANSOM RIGGS

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like...
RANSOM RIGGS

I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Somethi...
RANSOM RIGGS

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
RANSOM RIGGS

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.
RANSOM RIGGS

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburb...
RANSOM RIGGS

Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and ...
RANSOM RIGGS

You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.
RANSOM RIGGS

What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would...
RANSOM RIGGS

They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing...
RANSOM RIGGS

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
RANSOM RIGGS

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to peop...
RANSOM RIGGS

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pi...
RANSOM RIGGS

Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.
RANSOM RIGGS

..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.
RANSOM RIGGS

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just sta...
RANSOM RIGGS

I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just ...
RANSOM RIGGS

I do a lot of video games - I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my f...
CHANDLER RIGGS

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.
BOBBY RIGGS

I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.
CHANDLER RIGGS

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
BOBBY RIGGS

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
CHANDLER RIGGS

We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad s...
CHANDLER RIGGS

You'll be able to embed this directly into business applications without requiring a separate set of...
BRIAN RIGGS

The quality of this show is really good. All judges complain about that, and Carlene came in a coupl...
BRIAN RIGGS

The best of show was the bowl of fruit painted from above, so there was a strong interest in that. T...
BRIAN RIGGS

And then someone ruins it.
BRIAN RIGGS

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
BOBBY RIGGS

I gave my shots to him from the first point. He took everything he could possibly get.
BOBBY RIGGS

There just was no better place to be. It was just like Camelot,
BOBBY RIGGS

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
BOBBY RIGGS

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I ...
BOBBY RIGGS

I would have been jelly in a few more minutes.
THRON RIGGS

I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorre...
CHANDLER RIGGS

But that's not what qualified me for membership. It was the (1963 documentary) film I made, 'The Sea...
DON RIGGS

According to the club rules, you had to have flown an OX5 or have been a mechanic who had worked on ...
DON RIGGS

They had a plain, old round magnetic compass and a watch and they used landmarks on the ground. They...
DON RIGGS

We owe the old guys a debt of gratitude. Their mistakes then made aviation safe for us today.
DON RIGGS

He's one of the people that was well known and well regarded by everyone there, and the kind of pers...
GEORGE RIGGS

My initial reaction was disappointment that the uncertainty that all of us have faced will continue ...
GEORGE RIGGS

Contributions: A lot of people have pledges on church and things like that they may want to advance ...
GEORGE RIGGS

There is no need to sugar coat things. Slocomb played a great game. They whipped us up front all nig...
JAMIE RIGGS

It's tough for players to make it as walk-ons at that level, but it does give Michael the chance to ...
JAMIE RIGGS

You don't see linemen his size at the Division I level, even Division II although you will see some ...
JAMIE RIGGS

We knew Andalusia was the kind of team that was going to get a lot of yards just because they're so ...
JAMIE RIGGS

I think it would be better to leave out the telepathic part.
ALLYNN RIGGS

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!
CHANDLER RIGGS

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
CHANDLER RIGGS

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know...
CHANDLER RIGGS

I really like Deadmau5 and Coyote Kisses. And Foo Fighters too, I like rock.
CHANDLER RIGGS

I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I starting reading 'The W...
CHANDLER RIGGS

At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At ...
CHANDLER RIGGS

I love video games.
CHANDLER RIGGS

Mario is very much at peace with everything. He is not particularly surprised. He felt like some of ...
JOSEPH RIGGS

We have done a good job proving to you that Mario Chavez didn't make that phone call, didn't buy tha...
JOSEPH RIGGS

I think we are going to lose money on these contracts.
RALPH RIGGS

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se...
RALPH RANSOM

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensi...
RALPH RANSOM

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you rea...
RALPH RANSOM

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but mos...
RALPH RANSOM

They're not your everyday community neighborhood organization.
BRUCE RANSOM

The real question to come out of the discussion is: what is the public commitment and public investm...
BRUCE RANSOM

It seems like there's still some lingering bitterness between the governor and the legislators. He's...
BRUCE RANSOM

They've yet to break through and catch fire. It doesn't look good for the Democrats.
BRUCE RANSOM

She was in the very first group of docents.
ANNIE RANSOM

It's (usually) not until they go through the training that they get interested in something specific...
ANNIE RANSOM

Without the trial, you would not have had the OEMs so openly embrace other platforms.
RANSOM LOVE

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse...
RANSOM ANTOINE

We just kind of learned how each other played and got comfortable with each other.
RANSOM ANTOINE

We knew we had to win because we wanted to be champions. But part of it is that we just didn't want ...
RANSOM ANTOINE

You have to have heart to finish a game.
RANSOM ANTOINE

We just weren't making the open looks. We had enough open looks.
RANSOM ANTOINE

I had a hand in his face and he was just making it over me.
RANSOM ANTOINE

The outside kennels need to be completely remodeled or replaced as the concrete is deteriorating, th...
CURT RANSOM

I bunted for him. I think I'm the only player who ever pinch-hit for both.
CODY RANSOM

It's all about getting the opportunities. That's why I drive to Peoria every day. It's well worth it...
CODY RANSOM

From a business perspective, the best thing that we can do is create software that companies can dep...
RANSOM LOVE

Given your limited space and resources, we were quite impressed with your organization.
CURT RANSOM

We haven't found ourselves yet. We don't have a lot of leadership yet. Mentally, we aren't there. It...
DAN RANSOM

A lot of guys have success off him early in the count. If he gets two strikes on you, he picks at th...
CODY RANSOM

He's an artist who transcends generations. From his hits of the 1970s to the Lion King, Elton John a...
GREG RANSOM

It all comes down to who wins and who loses. There has been concern on the part of many people that ...
GREG RANSOM

That's why those programs were chosen. Some others were close, but these were dominant.
GREG RANSOM

We really need sponsors to fund the program.
JANIE RANSOM

That's a lot to ask from any one source.
JANIE RANSOM

We're sinking. April 21, the office will be empty.
JANIE RANSOM

It was a good game. I thought we played good offensively. On our defense, we were a little lax. We l...
JAY RANSOM

At halftime they were up 10, and then in the second half they just outplayed us and out-muscled us. ...
JAY RANSOM

They controlled the boards on us. They would get two or three shots and we were only getting one sho...
JAY RANSOM

In the first half we played very well, we moved the ball and played as a team. In the second half we...
JAY RANSOM

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluste...
RANSOM K. FERM

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the e...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content....
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of thi...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of on...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM

I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
MILLARD IN MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN BY RANSOM RIGGS

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