Joseph Delaney > Quotes

“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”
― Joseph Delaney, Night of the Soul Stealer

“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“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, Revenge of the Witch

“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, Revenge of the Witch

“He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“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, Clash of the Demons

“You never know just what you can do until you try.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“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, The Spook's Sacrifice

“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, Night of the Soul Stealer

“He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“None of us are either all good or all bad – we’re all somewhere in between – but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark…”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“Be less than what you are so that you can become more.”
― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

“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, The Spook's Mistake

“The moon shows the truth of things.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

“I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“Everyone has a price.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“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, The Spook's Mistake

“when theres a will theres a way”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“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, Attack of the Fiend

“Well, you’re safe until you make another silly mistake,’ the Spook added. ‘And don’t say you won’t. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It’s part of learning the job.”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“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, Attack of the Fiend

“Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“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, I Am Alice

“Nay, lad...”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

“What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?"
"Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“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, Attack of the Fiend

“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, Grimalkin the Witch Assassin

“Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch