“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“The moon shows the truth of things.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Did you finish the key?” I asked him.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
Joseph Delaney
Born place: in Preston, The United Kingdom
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“But imagine you’re a tapeworm, and then suddenly you’re Goethe. It’s like that.”
― John Scalzi, quote from The Android's Dream
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself?”
― Richard Wright, quote from The Outsider
“And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.”
― Diane Duane, quote from Deep Wizardry
“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
“You don't really keep vigil; it keeps you-suspended in awkward silence and dead air-desperate for anything at all to stir some hope out of these murky waters and make things vital again.”
― Gregory Boyle, quote from Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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