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 SHANDestiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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The world won’t end with a bang or a whimper. It’ll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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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To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we’ll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher…and falling
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