"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After."

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Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

Ransom Riggs

#Forever Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Half Quotes

“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”
“That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.”
“It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.”
“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
“You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.”
“You must quit looking at what you donâ€™t have and start believing that all things are possible.”
“The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.”

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