"When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking."

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Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.82, Quirk Books

Ransom Riggs

#Knocking Quotes

“I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.”
“The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.”
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”
“I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.”
“[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.”
“It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.”
“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldnâ€™t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.”
“Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...”

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