I don’t think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don’t. Photos and videos don’t capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
DARREN SHANThey forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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beg you. You’re civilised people. Help me!” “We can’t,” Prae says coldly. “Even if we wanted to – and personally I have no problem with him gutting you – we couldn’t. He’s not ours to control. He’s one of your specimens. You helped create him – now you have to deal with him
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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
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So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it’s only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.
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Real life’s nasty. It’s cruel. It doesn’t care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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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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I won’t die. I won’t give those ghouls the pleasure. I’ll live and grow strong. I’ll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
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sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others– even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit
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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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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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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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