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The speaker is describing a horrifying situation so extreme that even staying in bed seems preferable. The line uses dark humor to express fear, exhaustion, and regret in the middle of danger. It asks whether anyone has had a moment when the risk and discomfort felt absurdly overwhelming.
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About Ransom Riggs
American writer and filmmaker
Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker, best known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He is especially identified with that book, which brought him wide recognition. His work as a writer and filmmaker places him across both page and screen, though the available facts point chiefly to his fiction. The site includes 105 quotes attributed to him.
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Books by Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2011
Tales of the Peculiar
2016
A Map of Days
2018
A Map of Days
2018
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #3)
2015