Quotes From Grandpa Portman
Since I’m an organized person I’m going to start with the first quotation that I liked and stood out. “Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren’t lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth --- because the story of Grandpa Portman’s children wasn’t a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story.” I was fond of this quote since I feel many people do this when an unpleasant event occurred to them and in some occasions they change the event into something more cheerful. I know that his Grandpa Portman’s stories were real, but this quote actually made me think about how people actually do this when something bad happens to them.
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary …show more content…
Then I brushed my teeth and thought about Emma and I washed my face and thought about Emma. After that I went to my room and took the apple she’d given me out of my pocket and set it on the nightstand, and then, as if to reassure myself she still existed, I got out my phone and looked through the pictures of her I’d taken that afternoon.” I found this sweet of Jacob, but also kind of creepy. It’s sweet that he likes Emma so much that he thinks of her often. That this girl won’t leave his mind at all. However thinking about a girl that much is creepy that in a way it’s funny and most likely impossible. Thinking about someone since getting in the shower to when you’re going to sleep and nothing coming across your mind is impossible or in a way obsessive.
“Then Bronwyn lowered the camera and raised her arm, pointing at something beyond is. In the distance, black against the rising sun, a rising sun, a silent procession of battleships punctuated the horizon.” This quote has a great symbolism., because it means that Jacob, Miss Peregrine, and the peculiar children have gotten past the horrible events and the first time in a long time they feel alive and are
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary …show more content…
Then I brushed my teeth and thought about Emma and I washed my face and thought about Emma. After that I went to my room and took the apple she’d given me out of my pocket and set it on the nightstand, and then, as if to reassure myself she still existed, I got out my phone and looked through the pictures of her I’d taken that afternoon.” I found this sweet of Jacob, but also kind of creepy. It’s sweet that he likes Emma so much that he thinks of her often. That this girl won’t leave his mind at all. However thinking about a girl that much is creepy that in a way it’s funny and most likely impossible. Thinking about someone since getting in the shower to when you’re going to sleep and nothing coming across your mind is impossible or in a way obsessive.
“Then Bronwyn lowered the camera and raised her arm, pointing at something beyond is. In the distance, black against the rising sun, a rising sun, a silent procession of battleships punctuated the horizon.” This quote has a great symbolism., because it means that Jacob, Miss Peregrine, and the peculiar children have gotten past the horrible events and the first time in a long time they feel alive and are