Hollow City Book Quote Rp Meme
written by Ransom Riggs- Feel free to change pronouns or edit quotes for rp purposes
“Destiny is for people in books about magical swords.”
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
“They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.”
“Even here - running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death - even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace.”
“I love sad stories, especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.”
“The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.”
“That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
“He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn’t laugh at him.”
“Sometimes I can’t decide whether you’re completely mad or some sort of miracle,”
“Even under ordinary circumstances, I still might find a way to live an extraordinary life.”
“When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.”
‘how ami?’ It was a question that would’ve required some college-level math and about an hour of discussion to answer.”
I’ll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity.”
“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat,We are saved.”
“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”
“So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
“I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.”
“And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake.”
“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
“I’d felt so many things since our journey began—joy, fear, hope, horror—but until now, I’d never once felt alone.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.”
“The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
“At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.”
“Then he got quiet, lost in memories of a better time.”
“Ardet nec consumitur, Burned but not destroyed.”
“Such was the way the sad world turned.”
“Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”
“Strange, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they know how to let it go.”
“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.”
“goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
“It’s not about destiny but i do think there’s balance in the world and forces we don’t understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.”
"You give me strength I didn’t know I had,
“Bombs are falling and we’re reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane.”
If I’d kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.”
“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you’d just stayed in bed?”
I’m scared and I don’t like this at all and I think I’d like to hear a story instead.”
“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist”
“You’re here for a reason—and it’s not to fail and die.”
“I haven’t known you too long, but I feel I know your heart, and it’s a strong, true thing—a peculiar heart—and I trust you.”
“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.”
“There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.”
“From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom.”
“I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.”
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.”
“I never dreamed I’d owe my life to such an appalling article of clothing,”
“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn’t a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn’t we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
“It’s green now, preserved by the ice. But inside it’s dead. And the moment that ice melts, it’ll turn brown and wither into mush.I’m like that plant.”
“What’re you going to do pollinate it to death?”
“that peculiarness wasn’t a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn’t we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
“If.‘If’ always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if’ depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I couldn’t properly sense things if I was distracted. 'If’ demanded my full presence and participation in 'now.
“I had changed.And that, at least, gave me some hope: that even under ordinary circumstances, I still might find a way to live and extraordinary life.”
“They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.”
“Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
“Don’t fight the pain, that’s the key, my grandfather says. It’s telling you something. Welcome it, let it speak to you. The pain says: Hello, I am not other than you; I am of the hollow, but I am you also.”
'If’, as much as it scared me, also kept me sane.”
“Because from the day I met her I’d known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that make me crazy? Or was my heart too easily conquered?”
“If my body was cold in the night mist, I didn’t feel it. If the sea roared in my ears, I didn’t hear it. If the rock I sat on was sharp and jagged, I hardly noticed. Everything outside the two of us was a distraction.”
“they used that creative faculty to dismantle the world. To make living things into dead things. And for what? So that they might live a little longer. So that they might have a little more power over the world around them, and the creatures in it, for whom they cared so little. Waste. Such a stupid waste.”
“I’m not trying to hide anything, you know. It’s just that those musty stories make me feel ten years old again, and unwanted.That never goes away, no matter how many magical summer days have come between.”
