“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap - and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure about that,” Emma said. “Only kidding!” said Horace. “It’s to buy clothes, of course.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Then he got quiet, lost in memories of a better time.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“I wanted to thank you," I said.
She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said.
"You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“I hope I’ll be able to come home, someday. But there are things I need to do first. I just want you to know I love you and Mom, and I’m not doing any of this to hurt you.” “We love you, too, Jake, and if it’s drugs, or whatever it is, we don’t care. We’ll get you right again. Like I said, you’re confused.” “No, Dad. I’m peculiar.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that make me crazy? Or was my heart too easily conquered?”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“It's not about destiny but i do think there's balance in the world and forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
“Pointing into the ice, she said, “See that potted plant on the desk in there?” I saw. Nodded. “It’s green now, preserved by the ice. But inside it’s dead. And the moment that ice melts, it’ll turn brown and wither into mush.” She locked eyes with me. “I’m like that plant.”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Hollow City
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“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
“I again flourished my papers: “Here’re my credentials from the Coalition Administration.”
The American scrutinized the papers, shook his head in amazement, and smiled. “A South African,” he said. “You’re sure a long way from home.” He radioed through for instructions and indicated that I should bring my hired car up to the side of the roadblock and wait.”
― Lawrence Anthony, quote from Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
“Слагам ръка върху тази на Диего, хваща я, както се хваща стара ръкавица. В изминалите вечери се опитвахме да правим любов, но само се прегръщахме, без да продължим нататък. Смяхме се, това се случва на свършени любовници. Едно време бях неговото момиче, сега ходи нагоре-надолу с фотоапарата си, прави любов с това, което му се случва в околния свят, като някой свещеник. После се връща у дома при своята вечност.”
― Margaret Mazzantini, quote from Twice Born
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, quote from The Death of the Heart
“What's wrong with what I'm wearing?"
"I don't know, Em." Bryan takes a gulp from his water bottle. "It's a bit slutty, isn't it?"
I stare pointedly at the FHM poster Blu-Tacked on the wall opposite the bed, of some topless model, one finger in her mouth, the other hand reaching into her knickers.
"That's different.”
― Louise O'Neill, quote from Asking For It
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