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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

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

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

Darren Said Sick
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
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
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.
DARREN SHAN

Better Feel Hate Want
… 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
You didn’t want to die. Most mortals don’t, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.
DARREN SHAN

Dream Regret Suicide
If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
DARREN SHAN

Dark Lakes Soul
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
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
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
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
DARREN SHAN

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

Destiny Faces Whatever
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

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.

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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.

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