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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

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

Destiny Faces Whatever
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
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
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
If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
DARREN SHAN

Forever Humanity Turned
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
I sucked blood from one of my best friends
DARREN SHAN

Best Friend Blood
If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHAN

Bites Bullets Mankind
The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
DARREN SHAN

Moon Powerful Wall
Cirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
DARREN SHAN

Freak Series Vampire
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
DARREN SHAN

Dance Fall Finally Forever Men
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
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.
DARREN SHAN

Better Detours Path Something
Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
DARREN SHAN

Cracks Mutants Son
But you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
DARREN SHAN

Different Freak Outsiders

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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