Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Chapter 4 Quotes

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Chapter 4 Quotes

How we cite the quotes:
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"I thought I'd scared you off it. How's our haunted mansion faring these days? Still standing?" (4.79)

It's difficult for Jacob to see how Miss Peregrine's decrepit house could have ever been a home, especially when everyone else on the island thinks it's haunted.

Quote 2

My grandmother had bought my dad this ridiculous pink bunny costume, and he put it on and sat by the driveway waiting for Grandpa Portman to come home from five o'clock until nightfall, but he never did. (4.29)

Lots of Dad's resentment for Grandpa comes from this time when Grandpa didn't come home for Halloween. Their relationship never quite recovered from this betrayal of trust between father and son.

Quote 3

If Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be. (4.52)

Finding out that Grandpa might be an adulterer doesn't just sting, it kind of shakes Jacob to his very core. Jacob wants to be Grandpa, but he doesn't want to be him if he's not as good of a person as he's thought.