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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.

Darren Shan

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.
DARREN SHAN

Defining Moments Faces Matter
Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHAN

Challenges Life Mean
Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
DARREN SHAN

Cares Motherless Threats World
Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
DARREN SHAN

Cracks Mutants Son
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.
DARREN SHAN

Chance Die Handled Suicide
I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
DARREN SHAN

Demon Thieves
What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
DARREN SHAN

Enjoy Money Time Use
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
DARREN SHAN

Green Hair Mean
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
DARREN SHAN

Bliss Extinction Ignorance
A world of “if”s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time… but I couldn’t. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
DARREN SHAN

Behind Differences Past Time
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.
DARREN SHAN

Black Important Mean
… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Speak Young
sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others– even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit
DARREN SHAN

Belief Feelings Men Nothing Pain
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.
DARREN SHAN

Blood Disgusting Night Running
She was a beautiful woman.” Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. “She just had very bad taste in underwear …” “And in boyfriends,” I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that
DARREN SHAN

Beautiful Laughter
Throw up whatever’s making you sick, Darren,” he said, “then get your behind back in here.
DARREN SHAN

Darren Said Sick

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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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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