How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"He doesn't look strong," I said, studying the boy's skinny arms. (Prologue.32)
Many of the peculiar children look perfectly normal, like this kid. Some, however, don't, like Millard the invisible boy and the girl with a mouth in the back of her head.
Quote #2
The image was so strange, and yet it was nothing like my grandfather's pictures. There were no tricks here. It was just a woman—a woman smoking a pipe. (2.107)
The realistic-looking image convinces Jacob that this might be true. If it had been a goofy-looking one, Jacob probably would have written Miss Peregrine off as fantasy right then and there.
Quote #3
My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. What stood before me now was no refuge from monsters but a monster itself, staring down from its perch on the hill with vacant hunger. (3.116)
Jacob can't rationalize his grandfather's description of Miss Peregrine's house with the hollow shell it appears to be when he arrives there. It's practically the opposite of what Grandpa said.