Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
DARREN SHANBut you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
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Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
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Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you’ve been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can’t be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.
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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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Throw up whatever’s making you sick, Darren,” he said, “then get your behind back in here.
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One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
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Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
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No, thats not how it happened… Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful… His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I’ll even carry them with me after I go.
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The world won’t end with a bang or a whimper. It’ll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
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But in life we don’t usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we’re in.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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You didn’t want to die. Most mortals don’t, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.
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We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
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