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
DARREN SHANThey forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
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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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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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Underneath me, Sam Grest – who’d been my friend and saved my life – lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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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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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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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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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 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 were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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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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