It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
DARREN SHANIt is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
DARREN SHANNo, thats not how it happened… Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful… His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I’ll even carry them with me after I go.
DARREN SHANBut 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 SHANWhat are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
DARREN SHANIf 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 SHANThey forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
DARREN SHAN… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHANI mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
DARREN SHANI sucked blood from one of my best friends
DARREN SHANI 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.
DARREN SHANThe world won’t end with a bang or a whimper. It’ll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
DARREN SHANOne of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
DARREN SHANBut you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
DARREN SHANOf course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
DARREN SHANIf mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHANWell 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.
DARREN SHAN