Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHANReal 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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
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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.
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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 he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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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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Cirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
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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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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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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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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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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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