Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

by Ransom Riggs

but she hadn’t seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I’d like very much if I met her walking down the street.

“When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Know what I mean?”

“So tomorrow never comes.” “In a manner of speaking.”