Quotes from Joseph Delaney

Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.

You are feeling better, no?' he asked. My mouth dropped open. 'I thought you didn't speak our language...' I said. He shrugged. 'I do not speak well, but I can say enough. I understand more what I hear than I am able to reply. To rule, you must learn. I study many languages. You learn more by listening than speaking, no? So that is what I do. I have learned much already by listening to your conversation with the sorceress. I know you false. I know you to be farmer boy, not prince.

Each breath, each beat of your heart makes you stronger, braver, better.

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

Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

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.

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people.

I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward).

The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more." ? Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked. 'East,' she replied promptly. 'How do you know that?' 'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking.

then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone.

Just because she was a girl, that didn't necessarily make her weaker than me.

Mine was the shortest.

In order to survive, Tom and the Spook must form an alliance with Grimalkin, the deadly witch assassin of the most powerful of the Pendle clans.

Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone.

If we're afraid, sometimes there are things that can feed on that fear. Fear makes it worse for us. The trick is to concentrate on what you can see and stop thinking about yourself. It works every time.

I wondered what was so terrible about wearing pointy shoes. I knew my mam wouldn't be happy with what the Spook had just said. She believed you should take people as you find them, not just depend on someone else's opinion.

The person carrying me came to a halt and spoke. 'Take good care of her. I'll see you in two days.' It was the voice of Grimalkin.

She was holding the Starblade. It was Alice.

failed. I'm weary—weary

What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded. 'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.

They were tucking into big plates of bacon and eggs