Ransom Riggs Quotes

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.