Top 35 Joseph Delaney Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You never know just what you can do until you try.”

— Joseph Delaney

2. “Everyone has a price.”

— Joseph Delaney

3. “The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”

— Joseph Delaney

4. “The moon shows the truth of things.”

— Joseph Delaney

5. “Now it’s the dark’s turn to be afraid.”

— Joseph Delaney

6. “Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don’t judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.”

— Joseph Delaney

7. “I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren’t. Do that and I’d never be able to let her go.”

— Joseph Delaney

8. “How can you be lonely? You’ve got yourself, haven’t you? If you ever lose yourself, then you’ll really be lonely...”

— Joseph Delaney

9. “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.”

— Joseph Delaney

10. “Ive chosen my path – and right or wrong, it’s the one I tread.”

— Joseph Delaney

11. “Most things look better from a distance... And as a matter of fact, so do most people. – The Spook, pg 435.”

— Joseph Delaney

12. “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.”

— Joseph Delaney

13. “Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”

— Joseph Delaney

14. “I’ll tell you something now that I want you to remember. This is the truth. From the moment I first saw you I knew we were meant to be together. I loved you when we both lived with Old Gregory in Chipenden. I loved you when I was with Lukrasta. And I love you now. Either believe me or call me a liar – that’s up to you. But it’s the truth. – Alice.”

— Joseph Delaney

15. “Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.”

— Joseph Delaney

16. “Be less than what you are so that you can become more.”

— Joseph Delaney

17. “The price is the blood of the girl who cowers behind you. – Hecate to Grimalkin about Thorne.”

— Joseph Delaney

18. “Cowardice and courage are just labels – words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That.”

— Joseph Delaney

19. “My dad once told me that women know things that men don’t. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they’re thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don’t want to hear.”

— Joseph Delaney

20. “A true knight has a strict code of chivalry by which he lives his life: He cannot refuse a challenge and he always keeps his word. I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.”

— Joseph Delaney

21. “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...”

— Joseph Delaney

22. “Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I’ve seen it happen before. – Mam.”

— Joseph Delaney

23. “He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It’s part of learning the job.”

— Joseph Delaney

24. “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.”

— Joseph Delaney

25. “Everyone has his price. It’s just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn’t hurt you too much. – Dad.”

— Joseph Delaney

26. “Why does it have to be like this?′ I asked bitterly. ‘Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”

— Joseph Delaney

27. “Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others. – Mam.”

— Joseph Delaney

28. “What is evil?′ asked the Fiend.”

— Joseph Delaney

29. “We depend on neither man nor beast to get us where we need to go. If you rely on your own two good legs, then they won’t let you down.”

— Joseph Delaney

30. “But if everything’s already decided, then what’s the point of living? – Tom, pg 437.”

— Joseph Delaney

31. “Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied. Wouldn’t be human if you didn’t. But mostly I tell the truth. – Alice.”

— Joseph Delaney

32. “Did you finish the key?” I asked him.”

— Joseph Delaney

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

— Joseph Delaney

34. “You can’t just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”

— Joseph Delaney

35. “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

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36. “Have you ever felt time slow so much that that it almost appears to stop? Ever listened to a clock when the next tick seems to take forever to follow the last tock?”

— Joseph Delaney

37. “And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!”

— Joseph Delaney

38. “Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you’ll ever have. Someone who’ll make all the difference in the world. I just don’t know which way it will go. I can’t see it, no matter how hard I try.”

— Joseph Delaney

39. “I like to keep my books in my library, he said, ’and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.”

— Joseph Delaney