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 SHANThat’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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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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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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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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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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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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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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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Your spikes have gone floppy.
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Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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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.
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