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The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1) QUOTES

The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

2 " 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 , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

3 " ...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

4 " That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

5 " I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

6 " They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

7 " I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

8 " Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

9 " Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

10 " The doctor,' Erasmus echoed. 'They call him that—but what exactly is he a doctor of?'
The grotesque, I might have answered. The bizarre. The unspeakable. Instead I gave him the same answer the doctor had given me when I'd asked him not long after my arrival at the house on Harrington Lane. 'Philosophy,' I said with little conviction. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

11 " Snap to, Will Henry! "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

12 " 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 , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

13 " There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

14 " He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulously seeking succor, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

15 " Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real? "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

16 " Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

17 " Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

18 " Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

19 " We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god! "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

20 " A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea? "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)