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 SHANI mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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
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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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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
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I don’t think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don’t. Photos and videos don’t capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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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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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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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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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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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
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I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.
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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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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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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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Look at me!” I roar. “Do you think you’ll be the first I’ve killed today? I wasn’t a murderer, but you changed me. I’m a monster now. And I’m hungry.” “Meera!” Anotoine whines. “Prae! Please.
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They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
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So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it’s only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.
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One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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I won’t die. I won’t give those ghouls the pleasure. I’ll live and grow strong. I’ll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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