No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don’t want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.
DARREN SHANWell 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
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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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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don’t ever forget it.
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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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