“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 11, Page 351
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Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Miep_Gies.html
