Sometimes it's better not to look back.

—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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About Ransom Riggs

Portrait of Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

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Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

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Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.

—Alice Miller

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There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

—Jamie Ford in The World As We Know It

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Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

—Kim Harrison in and the Undead

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