Pellinore Warthrop Quotes

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop. ~ Rick Yancey

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

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. ~ Rick Yancey

Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there. ~ Rick Yancey

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

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

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

They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil. ~ Rick Yancey

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

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife. ~ Rick Yancey

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

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

King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast. ~ Thomas Malory

He had noticed my bandaged hand.
"An accident," Warthrop said tersely.
"Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife."
Von Helrung's brow knotted up in confusion. "By accident?"
"No," I answered. "That part was on purpose. ~ Rick Yancey