57 Quotes by Joseph Delaney

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.

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.

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

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.

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

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It’s part of learning the job.

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.

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

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.