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 SHANWhen it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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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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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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The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew – even the gods themselves – would condemn him for it, Jebel didn’t think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
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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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No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don’t want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.
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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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They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
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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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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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