Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHANThere 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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Underneath me, Sam Grest – who’d been my friend and saved my life – lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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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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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.
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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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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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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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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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Throw up whatever’s making you sick, Darren,” he said, “then get your behind back in here.
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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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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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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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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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