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 SHANIf 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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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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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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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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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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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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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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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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