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 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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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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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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You didn’t want to die. Most mortals don’t, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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 sucked blood from one of my best friends
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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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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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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.
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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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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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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
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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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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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