Jess > Jess's Quotes

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure about that,” Emma said. “Only kidding!” said Horace. “It’s to buy clothes, of course.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“What a peculiar lot you are, even for peculiars.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Life is always dangerous—never forget that. In the end, perhaps, not only great natural forces, but the work of our own hands may destroy it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse

“What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.”
― Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse

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

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora