Everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs


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I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs


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Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her hair back could make me want to follow her, help her, do anything she asked. I was hopelessly outmatched.

Ransom Riggs


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Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"

"What's the capital of Burma?"

"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"

"Good! When's your birthday?"

"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés humor



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Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés weather forecasting meteorologists weathermen



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...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.

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I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the way he let smoke curl from his lips and how the sinking sun lit his green hair reminded me of a punk, redneck James Dean. He was all of those things, a bizarre cross-pollination of subcultures possible only in South Florida.

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés punk florida redneck green-hair james-dean ricky



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It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Ransom Riggs

Mots clés money



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For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.

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If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn’t have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe.

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