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Ymbrynes are a type of peculiar who can manipulate time and shapeshift into birds. They also have a duty to care for young peculiars in need. Miss Peregrine is an ymbryne, creating a time loop on September 3, 1940, to protect the peculiar children from the bomb that would have hit their home that evening. The wights and hollowgast start to kidnap ymbrynes in the hope of using time loops to live forever, though their previous attempt to do this caused a massive explosion. Miss Avocet is also an ymbryne.
Ymbryne Quotes in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
The Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children quotes below are all either spoken by Ymbryne or refer to Ymbryne. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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“Is this what you want?” Golan shouted. “Go ahead, burn me! The birds will burn, too! Shoot me and I’ll throw them over the side!”
“Not if I shoot you in the head!”
He laughed. “You couldn’t fire a gun if you wanted to. You forget, I’m intimately familiar with your poor, fragile psyche. It’d give you nightmares.”
I tried to imagine it: curling my finger around the trigger and squeezing; the recoil and the awful report. What was so hard about that? Why did my hand shake just thinking about it? How many wights had my grandfather killed? Dozens? Hundreds? If he were here instead of me, Golan would be dead already, laid out while he’d been squatting against the rail in a daze. It was an opportunity I’d already wasted; a split-second of gutless indecision that might’ve cost the ymbrynes their lives.
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Ymbryne Term Timeline in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
The timeline below shows where the term Ymbryne appears in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
...One of Miss Peregrine’s skills is that she can manipulate time—she is known as an ymbryne. She can create temporal loops in which peculiar people can live forever. They only occupy...
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Ymbrynes scour the world for young peculiars and provide them safe harbor from the world. If...
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Chapter 9
Running back to the house, Hugh explains that one of Miss Peregrine’s fellow ymbrynes flew to the house, terrified, and before they could understand what happened, she fainted. Back...
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Emma and Jacob enter the sitting room, where the other ymbryne, Miss Avocet, is barely conscious in a chair. Miss Peregrine is feeding the woman some...
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...loop. They barricaded Miss Avocet inside the house and dragged the children away. Her fellow ymbryne, Miss Bunting, was abducted—it seems there is a coordinated attack happening against ymbrynes. Miss Avocet...
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Miss Peregrine’s brothers, along with a few traitorous ymbrynes and several hundred peculiars, went to Siberia to make their plan a reality. They caused...
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Chapter 10
...is also still there, and the children theorize why the hollows are trying to capture ymbrynes. But being confined to the house makes them apathetic and unhappy. One night, Jacob experiences...
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Jacob asks what Golan wants with the ymbrynes, and Golan explains that the hollows need all the ymbrynes working together to get their...
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Chapter 11
...the best course of action is to figure out where the wights are taking the ymbrynes. Horace starts to draw a scene from his dreams with the soot: a dark forest,...
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...if they stay, the wights and hollows will simply return. Emma suggests that finding another ymbryne can help them fix their loop, and gradually the others agree. They decide to abandon...
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