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Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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  • jellybellyhas quoted6 years ago
    I felt ashamed for having been jealous of his life, considering the price he’d paid for it, and I tried to feel lucky for the safe and unextraordinary one that I had done nothing to deserve.
  • Olga Khvanhas quoted8 years ago
    I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.
  • lucyhas quoted2 years ago
    Climbing down into the yard, I circled the house looking for another way in, taking the measure of the place, but it seemed almost without measure, as though with every corner I turned the house sprouted new balconies and turrets and chimneys. Then I came around back and saw my opportunity: a doorless doorway, bearded with vines, gaping and black; an open mouth just waiting to swallow me. Just looking at it made my skin crawl, but I hadn’t come halfway around the world just to run away screaming at the sight of a scary house
  • lucyhas quoted2 years ago
    Each room was a disaster more incredible than the last. Newspapers gathered in drifts. Scattered toys, evidence of children long gone, lay skinned in dust. Creeping mold had turned window-adjacent walls black and furry. Fireplaces were throttled with vines that had descended from the roof and begun to spread across the floors like alien tentacles. The kitchen was a science experiment gone terribly wrong—entire shelves of jarred food had exploded from sixty seasons of freezing and thawing, splattering the wall with evil-looking stains—and fallen plaster lay so thickly over the dining room floor that for a moment I thought it had snowed indoors. At the end of a light-starved corridor I tested my weight on a rickety staircase, my boots leaving fresh tracks in layers of dust. The steps groaned as if woken from a long sleep. If anyone was upstairs, they’d been there a very long time
  • Zhansaya Kairatkyzyhas quoted4 years ago
    I let it hang between us for a moment.
  • Alejandra Eliceriohas quoted4 years ago
    Stars, too, were time travelers.
  • Alejandra Eliceriohas quoted4 years ago
    made a grab for me, but slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
  • Zhansaya Kairatkyzyhas quoted4 years ago
    regarded me doubtfully, as if deciding whether to help or to wash his hands of the whole thing.
  • Zhansaya Kairatkyzyhas quoted4 years ago
    she would say, beaming
  • Zhansaya Kairatkyzyhas quoted4 years ago
    my mother said, narrowing her eyes at him as if readying herself to hear the unvarnished truth.
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