I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
DARREN SHANTo be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we’ll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher…and falling
More Darren Shan Quotes
-
-
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
DARREN SHAN -
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
DARREN SHAN -
That’s what you taught me – we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives – we just have to make the choice to use it.
DARREN SHAN -
The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
DARREN SHAN -
Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
DARREN SHAN -
Your spikes have gone floppy.
DARREN SHAN -
The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew – even the gods themselves – would condemn him for it, Jebel didn’t think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
DARREN SHAN -
Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHAN -
Like worms, we’ve grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always – will always be – there.
DARREN SHAN -
Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
DARREN SHAN -
Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.
DARREN SHAN -
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.
DARREN SHAN -
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.
DARREN SHAN -
If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
DARREN SHAN -
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.
DARREN SHAN