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

by Ransom Riggs

“Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.

Learning how to negotiate a world of people who can’t understand you and don’t want to—that’s probably the hardest bit.

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.