“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
“Feeling better?” he asked.
“As warm as chicken-apple soup.”
“I’m never going to hear the end of that, am I?”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Nightfall
“One by one, members of the Commons, speaking in turn at a lectern in the center of the chamber, added their charges and complaints. The King’s councillors, they said, had grown rich at the cost of impoverishing the nation; they had deceived the King and wasted his revenues, causing the repeated demands for fresh subsidies. The people were too poor and feeble to endure further taxation. Let Parliament discuss instead how the King might maintain the war out of his own resources.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, quote from A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
“I AM RIGHTEOUS!! I'm the hero who's liberating people from fear. I'm the savior who's going to be like a god of this perfect new world!”
― Tsugumi Ohba, quote from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
“Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Silver Borne
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