How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The monstrumologist rushed to my side. He grabbed me by the shoulders and looked deeply into my eyes, his own reflecting the intensity of his concern.
"Will Henry!" he cried softly. "Will Henry, why are you here?" He pulled me into his chest and whispered fiercely into my ear, "I told you that you are indispensable to me. Do you think I lied, Will Henry? I may be a fool and a terrible scientist, blinded by ambition and pride to the most obvious truths, but one thing I am not is a liar." (12.253-254)
This is quite the outpouring of emotions, especially for someone like Dr. Warthrop. He is saying that Will Henry is indispensable to him—not Will Henry's services. This. Is. Huge. Perhaps, despite Will Henry's adamant protestations against feeling love for the doc, they're a family after all.
Quote #11
And now she, the matriarch, the mother of the Anthropophagi, with her one remaining eye spied me standing beside her precious progeny, whom her instincts demanded she defend, as the doctor had said, to her last breath with ruthless ferocity. Her own pain did not matter. The fact that she was herself mortally wounded did not matter. What animated her was as old as life itself, the same irresistible force that the doctor had marveled at in the pastor's parlor: How strong is the maternal instinct, Will Henry! (12.326)
For a creature like the Anthropophagus, which has little to no capacity for empathy or compassion, the idea that maternal instinct overrides all other motivations seems almost incongruous. They live to eat and sleep and occasionally defend their territory, and yet will go to extreme lengths to defend their young. We guess it just shows the power of a mother's love.