Prologue, Page 8
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
“When I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.”
Prologue, Page 18
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
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