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 SHANNow sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!” “Haven’t you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
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Cirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
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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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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.
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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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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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When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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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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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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I’d like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can’t. It’s not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
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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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