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 SHANBetter 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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Look at me!” I roar. “Do you think you’ll be the first I’ve killed today? I wasn’t a murderer, but you changed me. I’m a monster now. And I’m hungry.” “Meera!” Anotoine whines. “Prae! Please.
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Cirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
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To 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
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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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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.
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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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If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
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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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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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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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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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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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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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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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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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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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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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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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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