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1 " But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. "
― Rick Yancey , The Isle of Blood (The Monstrumologist, #3)
2 " Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. "
3 " We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? "
4 " I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment. "
5 " She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all "
6 " I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw. I was surprised how cold it was. I closed my eyes and ducked beneath the surface. Thee was the wind and the clouds and the pure pool and the boy beneath its unsettled surface, and the blood, the boy's and monster's, defiling the pool. "
7 " And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us--you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair."Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away. "
8 " 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. "
9 " It is the magnificum. It lives in that space between spaces, in that spot one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. You cannot see it. It sees you. And when it sees you, it does not see you. It has no conception of you. There is magnificum and nothing else. "
10 " Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there. "
11 " The monstrumologist closed his eyes. "You should not have come, Will Henry."And I answered, "You should not have left me, Dr. Warthrop. "
12 " The monstrumologist laughed, and lifted his face toward the bleeding sky. "
13 " 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. "
14 " There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light. "
15 " Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human. "
16 " Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid.""What is? Love, or my question?""I don't know.""You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?""I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied. "
17 " You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will. "
18 " Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself. "
19 " And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime.That is not the color of red at all. "
20 " He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing with shit. "
