# Quote — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

> It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something […] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long.

- Author: [Ransom Riggs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs.md)
- Book: [Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children.md)
- Page: 96
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ransom_Riggs#Miss_Peregrine's_Home_for_Peculiar_Children_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/it-was-one

## More from this book

> I didn't know how to respond. How do you say I'm sorry your father didn't love you enough(YEAH RIGHT) to your own dad? I couldn't, so instead, I just said goodnight and headed upstairs to bed.

p. 97 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/i-didnt-know.md)

> I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

p. 351 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/i-used-to-dream.md)

> I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After."

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/i-had-just.md)