“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 with my face in a puddle of drool on the Smart Aid break room table and think, Well, that was strange, and then return to the boring old business of being me. But I didn't wake up.”
“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
Ransom Riggs
“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
Ransom Riggs
“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.”
Ransom Riggs
“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
Ransom Riggs
“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 ha...”
Ransom Riggs
