Monstrumologist Quotes

#1. It is wondrous, Will Henry," breathed the monstrumologist over the maddening hum of the flies. "I feared we might be wrong-that Socotra was not the *locus ex magnificum*. But we have found it, haven't we? And is it not wondrous?"
I agreed with him. It was wondrous.

Rick Yancey

#2. The monstrumologist closed his eyes. "You should not have come, Will Henry."
And I answered, "You should not have left me, Dr. Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#3. The monstrumologist laughed, and lifted his face toward the bleeding sky.

Rick Yancey

#4. One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#5. Let us go then, you and I, like Alice down the rabbit hole, to a time when there still were dark places in the world, and there were men who dared to delve into them.
An old man, I am a boy again.
And dead, the monstrumologist lives.

Rick Yancey

#6. Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Rick Yancey

#7. Isn't everyone hiding something?

Jessica Sorensen

#8. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

Rick Yancey

#10. These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.
But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.
The one who saved me ... and the one who cursed me.

Rick Yancey

#11. If you hear a different drummer, don't march - dance!

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#12. The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.

Rick Yancey

#13. Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Rick Yancey

#14. What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy' ... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

Barry Diller

#15. The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.

Rick Yancey

#16. Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

Eleanor Mondale

#17. There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

Rick Yancey

#18. I'm very much open to the possibilities.

Matthew Lewis