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Famous Quotes By Joseph Delaney

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My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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

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The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance. — Joseph Delaney

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You never know just what you can do until you try. — Joseph Delaney

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You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. — Joseph Delaney

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You are feeling better, no?' he asked.
My mouth dropped open. 'I thought you didn't speak our language...' I said.
He shrugged. 'I do not speak well, but I can say enough. I understand more what I hear than I am able to reply. To rule, you must learn. I study many languages. You learn more by listening than speaking, no? So that is what I do. I have learned much already by listening to your conversation with the sorceress. I know you false. I know you to be farmer boy, not prince. — Joseph Delaney

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But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437 — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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My name is Slither. — Joseph Delaney

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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? — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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 — Joseph Delaney

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Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you'll ever have. Someone who'll make all the difference in the world. I just don't know which way it will go. I can't see it, no matter how hard I try. — Joseph Delaney

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They were tucking into big plates of bacon and eggs — Joseph Delaney

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I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller. — Joseph Delaney

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

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight. — Joseph Delaney

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The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better ... — Joseph Delaney

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

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Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread. — Joseph Delaney

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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? — Joseph Delaney

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Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid. — Joseph Delaney

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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) — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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

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

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The moon shows the truth of things. — Joseph Delaney

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The price is the blood of the girl who cowers behind you. - Hecate to Grimalkin about Thorne — Joseph Delaney

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Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam — Joseph Delaney

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She was holding the Starblade.
It was Alice. — Joseph Delaney

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I'll find nobody for you, witch! the man retorted. — Joseph Delaney

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

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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What I've done means no witch can ever control you like that. It's my mark, see. My brand. It warns them off. Apart from that, it don't mean much, though. Not if you don't want it to. Don't have to sit next to me. Movie if you want. Do you want to go?"
I shook my head. "I'm happy sitting here next to you."
"And I'm happy here sitting next to you. So we're both happy. What can be wrong with that? — Joseph Delaney

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Dark thought started to slip into my mind, despite all my efforts to keep them out. What was the use of anything? We were born, we lived a few years, grew old, and then died. What was the point of it all? All those people in the County and the wide world beyond, living their short little lives before going to the grave. What was it all for? My dad was dead. He'd worked hard all his life, but the journey of his life had had only one destination: the grave. That's where we were all heading. into the grave. Into the soil, to be eaten by worms. Poor Billy Bradley had been the Spook's apprentice before me. He'd had his fingers bitten off by a boggat and had died of shock and loss of blood. And where was he now? In a grave. Not even in a churchyard. He was buried outside because the Church considered him no better than a malevolent witch. That would be my fate too. A grave in unhallowed ground. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job. — Joseph Delaney

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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 ... — Joseph Delaney

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I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward). — Joseph Delaney

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I'll tell you something now that I want you to remember. This is the truth. From the moment I first saw you I knew we were meant to be together. I loved you when we both lived with Old Gregory in Chipenden. I loved you when I was with Lukrasta. And I love you now. Either believe me or call me a liar - that's up to you. But it's the truth. - Alice — Joseph Delaney

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Each breath, each beat of your heart makes you stronger, braver, better. — Joseph Delaney

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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! — Joseph Delaney

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

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when theres a will theres a way — Joseph Delaney

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

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Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes. — Joseph Delaney

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Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam — Joseph Delaney

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What is evil?' asked the Fiend — Joseph Delaney

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Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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

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And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women."
My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her."
Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out! — Joseph Delaney

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

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Be less than what you are so that you can become more. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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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 — Joseph Delaney

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Did you finish the key? I asked him. — Joseph Delaney

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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! — Joseph Delaney

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

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failed. I'm weary - weary — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney

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Everyone has a price. — Joseph Delaney

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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. — Joseph Delaney