A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

by Ransom Riggs

It occurred to me, as we lingered on an episode of The Bachelor, how little I understood the world I’d grown up in. All my life, normal people had mostly baffled me—the ridiculous ways they strove to impress one another, the mediocre goals that seemed to drive them, the banality of their dreams. The way people rejected anything that didn’t fit their narrow paradigm of acceptability, as if those who thought or acted or dressed or dreamed differently from them were a threat to their very existence.