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

> Like the monsters, the enchanted-islands story was also a truth in disguise. Compared to the horrors of mainland Europe, the children's home that had taken in my grandfather must've seemed like a paradise, and so in his stories it had become one: a safe haven of endless summers and guardian angels and magical children, who couldn't really fly or turn invisible or lift boulders, of course. The peculiarity for which they'd be hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn’t that they had miraculous powers; that they had escaped the ghettos and gas chambers was miracle enough.

- 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)
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