Hollow City Quotes

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. (Jacob Portman in Hollow City - Chapter 11)”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Huh I said. 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

“And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake. 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.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City