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  • #1
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  • #2
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    John W. Campbell Jr.

  • #5
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #6
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #7
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #8
    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #9
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • #10
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #11
    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    William Wordsworth

  • #12
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #13
    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

  • #14
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #15
    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #16
    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #17
    Ransom Riggs
    “Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #18
    Ransom Riggs
    “...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #19
    Ransom Riggs
    “Sometimes it's better not to look back.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #20
    Ransom Riggs
    “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #21
    Ransom Riggs
    “I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #22
    Ransom Riggs
    “...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #23
    Ransom Riggs
    “Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #24
    Ransom Riggs
    “..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #25
    Ransom Riggs
    “To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #26
    Ransom Riggs
    “How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #27
    Ransom Riggs
    “I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #28
    Ransom Riggs
    “If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: life

  • #29
    Ransom Riggs
    “Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
    Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket



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