Joseph Delaney Quotes & Sayings

#1. Most things look better from a distance ... And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

#2. There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!

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#3. Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.

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#4. Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.

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#5. Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad

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#6. What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded.
'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.

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#7. Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

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#8. But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437

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#9. My name is Slither.

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#10. The moon shows the truth of things.

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#11. Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.

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#12. For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.

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#13. Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

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#14. I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

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#15. My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.

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#16. Then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone.

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#17. Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

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#18. Finally there was a thick, warm cloak with a red clasp shaped like a rose. Grimalkin must have had these made in the County and hidden them among her own possessions. I was still half asleep; the last thing I wanted

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#19. If we're afraid, sometimes there are things that can feed on that fear. Fear makes it worse for us. The trick is to concentrate on what you can see and stop thinking about yourself. It works every time ...

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#20. We are the strong ones. We squash anything that we don't like. Anything that threatens us gets smeared! (Grimalkin to Alice)

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#21. Are you my enemy? Are you strong, with speed and agility and the training of a warrior? It matters naught to me. Run now! Run fast into the forest! I'll give you a few moments' start - an hour, if you wish. But you will never be fast enough. I'll catch and kill you before long.

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#22. Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.

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#23. Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.

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#24. Each breath, each beat of your heart makes you stronger, braver, better.

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#25. Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better.
- John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

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#26. The price is the blood of the girl who cowers behind you. - Hecate to Grimalkin about Thorne

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#27. The person carrying me came to a halt and spoke. 'Take good care of her. I'll see you in two days.'
It was the voice of Grimalkin.

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#28. What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked.
'East,' she replied promptly.
'How do you know that?'
'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking.

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#29. I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. I belong to Alice!

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#30. They were tucking into big plates of bacon and eggs

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#31. She was holding the Starblade.
It was Alice.

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#32. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

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#33. A true knight has a strict code of chivalry by which he lives his life: He cannot refuse a challenge and he always keeps his word. I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

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#34. Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread.

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#35. Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam

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#36. You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

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#37. Have you ever felt time slow so much that that it almost appears to stop? Ever listened to a clock when the next tick seems to take forever to follow the last tock?

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#38. Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.

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#39. You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.

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#40. Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

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#41. failed. I'm weary - weary

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#42. What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?"
"Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

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#43. when theres a will theres a way

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#44. Did you finish the key? I asked him.

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#45. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

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#46. My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary

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#47. Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam

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#48. Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice

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#49. We depend on neither man nor beast to get us where we need to go. If you rely on your own two good legs, then they won't let you down.

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#50. How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely ...

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#51. What is evil?' asked the Fiend

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#52. The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away.

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#53. When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead.

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#54. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That

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#55. Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

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#56. I'll find nobody for you, witch! the man retorted.

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#57. In order to survive, Tom and the Spook must form an alliance with Grimalkin, the deadly witch assassin of the most powerful of the Pendle clans.

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