The 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. I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. "Hand job" is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band.

Daria Snadowsky

#8. 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

#9. The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#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. 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

#12. (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Shulamith Firestone

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

Rick Yancey

#14. 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

#15. I didn't say it didn't feel good..." They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after.

Sara Zarr

#16. How'd you get this number?"
"Well, you see, there's this book. It has white pages. And it has all these phone numbers listed inside it. It's also online.

Stephanie Perkins

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

Rick Yancey

#18. Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

Frederick Lenz