Ransom Riggs

"Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time."

"I didn't know how to respond. How do you say I'm sorry your father didn't love you enough to your own dad? I couldn't, so instead, I just said goodnight and headed upstairs to bed."

"A falling-down wreck on the edge of town, curtains permanently drawn, that would turn out to have been home to some ancient recluse who'd been surviving on ramen and toenail clippings since time immem…"

"Sometimes you just need to go through a door."

"Part of me felt like something momentous was about to happen. The other part of me expected to wake up at any moment, to come out of this fever dream or stress episode or whatever it was and wake up w…"

"It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long."

"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was."

"I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting."