Ransom Riggs Quotes

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

The past is but the past of a beginning.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.