I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. Ransom Riggs More Quotes by Ransom Riggs More Quotes From Ransom Riggs I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all. Ransom Riggs beautiful book thinking It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. Ransom Riggs dont-care care easy I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own. Ransom Riggs other-worlds writing doors My portal to another world was fiction. Ransom Riggs portal fiction world I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick. Ransom Riggs nice sticks dream We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. Ransom Riggs fairy-tale peculiar believe Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these 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 that 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 echoes stars life But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. Ransom Riggs monday book years Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. Ransom Riggs nightmare strange dream I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. Ransom Riggs cheated born century 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 house home memories I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting Ransom Riggs flirting girl trying 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 care laughing mean 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 one-day peculiar mother 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 romance life book Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? Ransom Riggs finding-yourself climbing wish If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book. Ransom Riggs perspective book world When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message. Ransom Riggs writing trying thinking Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. Ransom Riggs fifty jobs directors Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out. Ransom Riggs eye hair people
