Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Quotes

Every time he described [the monsters] he'd toss in some lurid new detail: they stank like putrefying trash; they were invisible except for their shadows; a pack of squirming tentacles lurked insid...

My grandfather was the only member of his family to escape Poland before the Second World War broke out. (Prologue.47)

I thought about it, looking at the pictures and then at my grandfather, his face so earnest and open. What reason would he have to lie? (Prologue.38)

"They're coming for me, understand? […] What am I supposed to fight them with, the goddamned butter knife?" (1.24)

"He doesn't look strong," I said, studying the boy's skinny arms. (Prologue.32)

At home I made my ambitions known by parading around with a cardboard tube held to my eye, shouting, "Land ho!" (Prologue.3)

One day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. (Prologue.3)

Growing up, Grandpa Portman was the most fascinating person I knew. (Prologue.2)