Quotes from Joseph Delaney

We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter — in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.

My name is Slither.

When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead.

My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary

Finally there was a thick, warm cloak with a red clasp shaped like a rose. Grimalkin must have had these made in the County and hidden them among her own possessions. I was still half asleep; the last thing I wanted

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

I realized Mam was right. It was nothing to do with prophecy. You could see it in Alice's eyes. She'd always be somewhere in between, neither wholly good nor wholly bad. But wasn't that true of all of us? Not one of us was perfect.

Her trade is death and torture.

He twisted his head, opened his mouth wide, and lunged toward me as if to bite my head from my body. But I avoided those deadly jaws, then swung the hammer back hard into his face, smashing his front teeth into fragments and leaving only broken, bloody stumps. Few things have given me greater satisfaction!

Besides, it is my pleasure to watch you suffer.

I am Grimalkin and I could kill you all!" I cried. "But I will slay only three - the strongest three!

This was the calm. I was the storm.

How can it hope to defeat me? I am Grimalkin.

Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, the most deadly.

Grimalkin was never meant to die in a warm bed - she should have met her end in battle, as a warrior.

each place I fight is home. My blades have a home too - in the hearts of my enemies.

Why does it have to be like this? Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

A witch should not fear her own death. It is just the setting of a sun and a promise of the darkness that is our true home.

Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.

I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

I have looked into the darkness, into the greatest darkness of all, and now I fear nothing.

GRIMALKING DOES NOT CRY

I have become the mother of death.

He scribbled a lot of words for a dying man.