Movie Info
Starring: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Kim Dickens, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson
Story: Fantasy adventure directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) follows Jake (Asa Butterfield) as he uncovers a hidden world of children with extraordinary abilities. Guided by clues across time, he discovers Miss Peregrine’s (Eva Green) secret refuge. But as danger closes in, Jake must learn who to trust and who he truly is.
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Top Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Quotes
Jake: Do you ever feel like nothing you do matters? You leave footprints on the beach, and tomorrow they’re gone. Like it’s just today over again. They say your teen years are for making friends and having fun, which made me feel even worse.
Jake: [referring to Abe, his grandfather] He used to call me Tygrysku. It’s Polish for “little tiger”. He couldn’t have picked a less appropriate nickname. I was always a chicken.
Frank: Jake! Check it out. That’s a peregrine falcon.
Jake: A peregrine, like the headmistress?
Frank: Sure. That’s probably where Grandpa came with the tale of turning into a bird thing.
Jake: Maybe. Maybe that’s really her.
Jake: [shouts at the bird] Hey, Miss Peregrine. Its me, Jake. I am Abe Portman’s grandson. Please don’t crap on us.
Jake: [as Franklin gives him a horrified look] Oh. My God. Dad, I’m kidding.
Jake: I can’t believe you’re real. You’re all real!
Miss Peregrine: We’re what’s known, in common parlance, as “peculiar”.
Miss Peregrine: You see, I’m a type of peculiar called an Ymbryne. That means I can…
Jake: Yeah, you turn into a bird.
Miss Peregrine: I do. Yes. But that’s not very useful. An Ymbryne’s main skill is the manipulation of time. We choose a safe place, a safe day, and create a loop.
Miss Peregrine: A loop preserves the last twenty-four hours. Reset the loop, and the day is yours to live in again. Reset it daily, and you can stay there forever. Entirely safe from the outside world.
Miss Peregrine: Every Ymbryne commits herself to the creation and upkeep of a place like this. A home for peculiar children.
Miss Peregrine: Jake, there’s some questions that I can’t answer, alright? So, it would be a lot easier for me if you just stopped asking them.
Miss Peregrine: Millard. Go and put some clothes on. Polite persons do not take their supper in the nude.
Miss Peregrine: We don’t discuss the future here. We enjoy living in the good old here and now.
Emma: I hate goodbyes.
Jake: I’ll come back tomorrow.
Emma: There’s no hurry. I’ll be here forever.
Miss Peregrine: Are you implying Abe died an unnatural death?
Jake: I found him in the woods with his eyes missing. I’d say that was pretty unnatural.
Miss Peregrine: Unless essential, I don’t discuss unpleasant matters.
Emma: Air. It’s my peculiarity. It does what I want.
Emma: Jake, you belong here.
Jake: You know I don’t. I’m not like you. I’m just ordinary.
Emma: No, you’re not. Jake, only a peculiar can enter a time loop.
Jake: Once this loop closes, that’s it. I can’t get back to my own time.
Emma: You didn’t seem very happy there.
Jake: I can’t just leave! I have a family!
Emma: And you felt ordinary. Like, nothing you do changes anything! Now you have a chance to do something that changes everything!
Dr. Golan: The breadth of my peculiarity is purely limited by my imagination. The only thing I can’t change is my eyes.
Enoch: [to Miss Peregrine] You’re sacrificing yourself, and all of us, for Jake?
Miss Peregrine: [referring to the children] Promise me one thing, Jake. That you will try to look after them all.
Jake: I promise.
Jake: I just wanted to say that I miss you, and if I disappointed you, I’m sorry. You’re the best grandpa in the world.
Emma: Our old loop’s gone for good. We wouldn’t see each other again.
Jake: I thought you wanted me to stay.
Emma: I know you’ll choose Abe. If I minded, I wouldn’t have told you.
Enoch: Time catches up with all of us.
Barron: [as Jake shoots an arrow at him] You missed me again, Jake. I take it accuracy is not your peculiarity.
Barron: [to Emma] Eventually you’re going to run out of breath. And it’ll all be over! Death for your believe Jake and Miss Peregrine, everlasting life for me!
Jake: I’m not ordinary. I can do something no one else can I can see the monsters.
Emma: We don’t need you to make us feel safe, Jake. Because you made us feel brave. And that’s even better.
Jake: I was so scared that you wouldn’t be here. That I’d never see you again.
Abe: I’m safe.
Abe: [referring to Emma] Go to her, Jake. You have the map. You can get back to 1943.
Jake: No. Even so, they took a boat. I don’t know where they are.
Abe: But you know where they were.