Pellinore Quotes & Sayings

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

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

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping. — Bill Cosby

The monstrumologist laughed, and lifted his face toward the bleeding sky. — Rick Yancey

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color. — Sarah Hyland

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

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you. — Johnny Hunt

But somebody said there was billions bet on this. You'd think they'd be lined up three deep the whole way. And that there'd be TV coverage"
"It's discouraged."
"Why?"
"Why ask me?"
"Because you know," Garraty said, exasperated.
"How do you know?"
"Jesus, you remind me of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, sometimes," Garraty said. "Don't you ever just talk? — Stephen King

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live. — Soren Kierkegaard

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom ... " & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye. — David Mitchell

Dollying the rest up is your baby. (Btw, did I mention it's cheap?) Most of the procedures described can be done by virtually anyone with the parts currently residing on their drive-to-work banger. The rest are low-budget (cheap!) and can be carried out with household or garage tools. All of these are things that I did to one or more of the Beetles I've had. — Christina Engela

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

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

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done. — Elinor Fuchs

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

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

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. — Desiderius Erasmus

Will isn't my little bastard assistant. Will is Pellinore Warthrop's little bastard assistant. — Rick Yancey

Our fathers had bequeathed us nothing but memories. A fire had stripped me of all tangible tokens, save my little hat; Alistair Warthrop had taken most of what had belonged to Pellinore. What remained of them was simply us, and when we departed, so would they. We were the tablets upon which their lives were writ. — Rick Yancey

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

Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has little flavor, little light and little influence. When near beliefs are our only source of motivation, tough stands are never taken, feathers are never ruffled, and absolutes are held very loosely. — Dennis Rainey

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell

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

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn. — Valerie Azlynn

The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was for relationship with the redeemer, to serve his interests and his purposes in the world. — Christopher Wright

He had one arm under my head, the other wrapped lovingly around my stomach. I glanced at my ring and turned it every which way so the light streaming in through the blinds would catch perfectly on the diamonds. Brandon's hand started on slow circles when Gummy Bear's elbow skimmed across my side as he shifted. "It — Molly McAdams

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