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So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs
Mother, One Day, Peculiar
Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.