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

by Ransom Riggs

“Well, then. I shall endeavor to be fully dressed at all times, lest anyone be made uncomfortable by basic facts of biology.”

“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.

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.

“The past is so much less terrifying than the future,” he explained after some coaxing. “Even the most terrible era of the past is at least knowable. It can be studied. The world survived it. But in the present, one never knows when the whole world could come to a terrible, crashing end.”