“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
Joseph Delaney
Born place: in Preston, The United Kingdom
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“We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.”
― William B. Irvine, quote from A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
“Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause,20 of personal and social maladjustment.”
― Johann Hari, quote from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
― Robert McKee, quote from Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.”
― Mary Roach, quote from Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from La Divina Comedia
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