“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“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, quote from 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, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“when theres a will theres a way”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“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, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?"
"Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from 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, quote from Attack of the Fiend
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
“You're naming your collector's-item, kick-ass sword that's made to maim and kill, specifically designed to bring your ginormous enemies to their knees and hear the lamentation of their women-Pooky Bear?"
"Yeah, you like it?”
― Susan Ee, quote from World After
“After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer."
There was a gasp of horror from the crowd.
Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Battle for Skandia
“The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer—and yet also, like most things, so very simple—was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. No numbing it down with a martini or covering it up with a roll in the hay. As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.”
― Cheryl Strayed, quote from Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from The Complete Short Stories
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