Peculiars Quotes & Sayings

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not. — Neil L. Andersen

You're the most obviously peculiar bunch of peculiars I've ever laid eyes on. — Ransom Riggs

I expected as much from you, girl," said Caul. "You're so typical of ymbryne-raised peculiars: no ambition, and no sense at all but one of entitlement. Quiet yourself, I am speaking to the male. — Ransom Riggs

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem. — Will Ferrell

In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they'd been seeking. It's believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement - feeding on stray animals, living in isolation - and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation. If a hollow gorges itself on enough peculiars, it becomes a wight. — Ransom Riggs

And yet ... marriage seems to be the worst thing to happen to me. Though there are days I would argue that that wasn't true at all, and that the worst thing to happen to me is Nick Hudson. Not that picking one definitive answer would change the outcome. Nothing can change that now. Nothing dead can be brought back to life, literally or otherwise. — Crystal Cierlak

In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty - an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present. — Ransom Riggs

There are peculiars all over the world," she said, "though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were. — Ransom Riggs

To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues. — Bertrand Russell

You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating. — Kate Bornstein

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. — George M. Humphrey

Don't look, okay. Kiss me, baby. Just kiss me and we'll go together. — Nashoda Rose

What a peculiar lot you are, even for peculiars. — Ransom Riggs

bullets were a quick, impersonal way to kill. Using your hands, though - that took work. It required hate. It was a strange and sour thing to know that such hatred had been directed at me. That peculiars who didn't even know my name had, in a moment of collective madness, hated me enough to try to beat out my life with their fists. I felt shamed by it, dehumanized somehow, though I couldn't exactly understand why. It was something I'd have to reckon with, if one day I ever had the luxury of time to reckon with such things. I — Ransom Riggs

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away. — Phillip C. McGraw

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. — Patrick Stewart

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while. — William Faulkner

I should warn you: this is an ambrosia den, and there'll be peculiars in there who are lit out of their minds. Don't talk to them, and whatever you do, don't look them in the eye. I know people who've been blinded that way. — Ransom Riggs

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. — William James

Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as if the glories of hidden caves and secret peaks had wrapped around the ageless majesty of the ocean and turned into the music of all men's lives, played out by a woman's fingers, without pause or mercy, reaching in, twisting, laying us bare. — Mark Lawrence

He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere. — Lauren DeStefano

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. — Mel Torme

These strange-looking people weren't peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present. — Ransom Riggs