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

by Ransom Riggs

but her problems—what I knew of them, anyway—had to do with growth and healing and freedom. And that was something to be grateful for.

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.