What are you using? I asked. Fascination or glamour?Both, she said, giving me a wicked smile
The moon shows the truth of things.
None of us are either all good or all bad – we’re all somewhere in between – but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark…
Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.
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...
Bryony
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 w...
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.
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.
Be less than what you are so that you can become more. Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice
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?
Well, you’re safe until you make another silly mistake,’ the Spook added. ‘And don’t say you won’t. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It’s part of learning the job.
Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone.
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.
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.
Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.
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...
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 m...
Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad
Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.