Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.

— Ransom Riggs

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

— Ransom Riggs

Everything happens for a reason.

— Ransom Riggs

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

— Ransom Riggs

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.

— Ransom Riggs

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully." We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but that's about it.

— Ransom Riggs

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

— Ransom Riggs

.he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

— Ransom Riggs

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

— Ransom Riggs

He was cross-examining my subconscious.

— Ransom Riggs