Pellinore V Quotes

#1. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. Do you know why our race is doomed, Pellinore? Because it has fallen in love with the pleasant fiction that we are somehow above the very rules that we have determined govern everything else.

Rick Yancey

#3. If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#4. The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

Jerry Pournelle

#5. Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

Charles B. Rangel

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

Rick Yancey

#7. I am grieved at what you tell me," said Pellinore, "but I believe that God can change destiny. I must have faith in that.

John Steinbeck

#8. 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

#9. You took my body and my soul, but you wanted no part of my truth.

Kirsten Beyer

#10. Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Moshe Dayan

#11. They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.

Rick Yancey

#12. My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

Craig Brown

#13. I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

Ashton Kutcher

#14. Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

Jazmine Sullivan

#15. I might have kissed her here," said Pellinore Warthrop to himself
the fugitive, the prisoner. "I do not remember.

Rick Yancey

#16. Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

Joan D. Chittister

#17. Awards that ignore me are losers.

Shahrukh Khan

#18. King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.

Thomas Malory

#19. My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.

Dan Spencer

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

Rick Yancey

#21. Will isn't my little bastard assistant. Will is Pellinore Warthrop's little bastard assistant.

Rick Yancey

#22. 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

#23. The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Adolf Loos

#24. I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#25. Chopin
Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

H.L. Mencken

#26. We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists. And Pellinore Warthrop was the best of us, for he had found the courage to turn and face the most terrifying monster of all.

Rick Yancey