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I know that no matter how lonely I get, I’ll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don’t leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait…in the shades.

Darren Shan

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
DARREN SHAN

Cares Motherless Threats World
Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
DARREN SHAN

Destiny Faces Whatever
… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Speak Young
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.
DARREN SHAN

Alive Animal Blood Feast never
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

Challenges Life Mean
What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
DARREN SHAN

Enjoy Money Time Use
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.
DARREN SHAN

Helping Hero Limits
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
DARREN SHAN

Forgotten Light Night
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
DARREN SHAN

Attract Girl Pride Ugly
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.
DARREN SHAN

Awful Burning Dying
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

Firsts Pairs Themselves Thinking
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.
DARREN SHAN

Ghouls Giving Strong
I sucked blood from one of my best friends
DARREN SHAN

Best Friend Blood
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

Believe Challenge Hand Heri=Oism
If I’d known how wrong I was – if I’d had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead – I’d have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.
DARREN SHAN

Blood Disgusting Night Running
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 SHAN

Kids Past Real
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
DARREN SHAN

Beautiful Laughter
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.
DARREN SHAN

Better Detours Path Something
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.
DARREN SHAN

Monster People Thinking
If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
DARREN SHAN

Dark Lakes Soul
But you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
DARREN SHAN

Different Freak Outsiders
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
DARREN SHAN

Brother Smart Vampire War
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

Always Fall Learn Small Some
Your spikes have gone floppy.
DARREN SHAN

Course Gone Nightmare
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.
DARREN SHAN

Behind Differences Past Time
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

Choices Destiny Taught
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
DARREN SHAN

Belief Feelings Men Nothing Pain

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I’ll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don’t leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait…in the shades.

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I know that no matter how lonely I get, I’ll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don’t leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait…in the shades.

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