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

by Ransom Riggs

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.

They came from a time before the concept of teenager-hood even existed. That was an invention of the postwar years, before which you had been either a child or an adult.

“The past?” Paul shook his head. “Is nothing but an open wound.”