"What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die."

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Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.49, Quirk Books

Ransom Riggs

#Believe Quotes #Everything Happens For A Reason Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.”
“Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.”
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.”
“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”
“How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?”

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