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“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”

Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Prologue, Page 8
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

Life , Change

“When I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.”

Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Prologue, Page 18
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

“It was true of course, what my dad had said: I did worship my grandfather. There were things about him that I needed to be true, and his being an adulterer was not one of them. When I was a kid, Grandpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be—that was magical. So I couldn't believe he was a liar and a cheater and a bad father. Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be.”

Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 4, Page 92

Life , Personality

“It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something […] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long.”

Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 200, Page 96