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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

Power always impresses the young and foolish.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Impress Young
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 SHAN

Always Fall Learn Small Some
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.
DARREN SHAN

Awful Burning Dying
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.
DARREN SHAN

Choices Destiny Taught
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.
DARREN SHAN

Assuming Assumption Life Things
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
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
If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
DARREN SHAN

Forever Humanity Turned
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
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
DARREN SHAN

Attract Girl Pride Ugly
One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
DARREN SHAN

Disorder Severe Worry
Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
DARREN SHAN

Destiny Faces Whatever
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 SHAN

Believe Challenge Hand Heri=Oism
If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHAN

Bites Bullets Mankind
I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
DARREN SHAN

Demon Thieves

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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