..."I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless.

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés descriptive-prose



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How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés millard miss-peregrine



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The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.

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Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

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Mots clés humorous



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Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company - just not pants-worthy company - and rocked endlessly in a plastic-covered easy chair as he talked.

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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

Mots clés stars earth mystery thought-provoking



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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.

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Mots clés war monsters



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Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

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I don't mean to be rude' I said, 'but what are you people?'
'We're peculiar,' he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. 'Aren't you?;
'I don't know. I don't think so'
'That's a shame.

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If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!

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