If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHANSo 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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She was a beautiful woman.” Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. “She just had very bad taste in underwear …” “And in boyfriends,” I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that
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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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A world of “if”s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time… but I couldn’t. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
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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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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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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.
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They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
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But you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
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Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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.
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I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.
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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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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don’t want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.
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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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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
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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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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
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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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