Doctor Helen Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Helen Magnus

Got you, beastie.

Helen Magnus

Sorry, but I did warn them it was urgent that I see you.

Helen Magnus

Believe me, Will. If I could control life like a bloody chess game, a lot of things would have turned out very differently.

Helen Magnus

It's time the world knew the truth. This district is full of strange beings who have lived among us for hundreds of years. I call them abnormals. You know them as monsters. And they very much exist.

Helen Magnus

I was in Poland in 1943 when the Nazis entered the Warsaw ghetto. I watched them raze it to the ground. Thousands dead, the rest sent to death camps. Walling people in is always the first step. They will not allow this Homeland to exist, Henry, and trust me, history always repeats.

Helen Magnus

My house. My rules.

Helen Magnus

Shall we begin?

Helen Magnus

Any questions?

Will Zimmerman

Just one. How come there's no organ music?

Will Zimmerman

You ran me over.

Helen Magnus

You got in the way.

Helen Magnus

This isn't a zoo, and it's certainly not a prison.

Will Zimmerman

Yeah, but some of these things, they look dangerous as hell.

Helen Magnus

We have a dual obligation: to study the miraculous, and to protect against the perilous.

Will Zimmerman

Yeah, but... the dangerous ones. What’s the point of even keeping them?

Helen Magnus

Every creature expands our knowledge. We learn from the deadly as well as the benign.

Will Zimmerman

How many more are there?

Helen Magnus

Hmm...many.

Helen Magnus

I work with sentient beings, each worthy of the same respect that humans, even animals, receive automatically. These creatures are the key to the evolution of our race, past and future, and yet we revile them, destroy them. And worst of all, pretend they don't even exist. But they are out there, Dr. Zimmerman. Lost, like the child you saw tonight. Misunderstood, hunted... and they need our help, your help.

Will Zimmerman

[sighs] I- I still don't understand why you would come to me.

Helen Magnus

Because I need someone who can see beyond the surface, see the world as it really is.

Will Zimmerman

I profile criminals, not monsters.

Helen Magnus

[laughs] You can't see the irony in that statement?

Helen Magnus

Many of the survivors of this disaster moved on and had children.

Henry Foss

Yeah, if you can call them that.

Helen Magnus

[irritated] Your sensitivity is breathtaking.

Henry Foss

The kid sucks brains! Not that I’m being judgmental.

Will Zimmerman

Turns out that a John Druitt was one of Scotland Yard's prime suspects in the Ripper Case in the 1880s.

Helen Magnus

Yes, he was my first patient.

Will Zimmerman

Which means... either one or both of you can travel through time, either that or you're more than--

Helen Magnus

I am 157 years old.

Will Zimmerman

[sighs heavily] How is any of this possible?

Helen Magnus

When you work at the frontiers of science for as long as I have, the rewards and curses are...unexpected

Will Zimmerman

You know, I was hoping that at least you would be normal.

Helen Magnus

Sorry to disappoint. Is there anything else?

Will Zimmerman

Is there a health plan?

Helen Magnus

No, but I can promise you the adventure of many, many lifetimes. Shall we begin?

Will Zimmerman

I got "I'm going in" and "go around" but what was that wiggly one you did?

Helen Magnus

"Either we work together or we die." Let's go.