Ransom Riggs Quotes - Page 2

Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
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You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty.""Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied
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Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully."We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.
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No one here is embarrassed of their gift.
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What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?
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I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.
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She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.
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I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor people
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At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.
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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!
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...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
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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.
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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
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