When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
DARREN SHANbeg 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
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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I know that no matter how lonely I get, I’ll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don’t leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait…in the shades.
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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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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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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.
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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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Your spikes have gone floppy.
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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.
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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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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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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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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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