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 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 SHANYou 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 SHANCirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
DARREN SHANQuick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!” “Haven’t you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
DARREN SHANBetter 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 SHANStick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
DARREN SHANShe 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
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 SHANLook at me!” I roar. “Do you think you’ll be the first I’ve killed today? I wasn’t a murderer, but you changed me. I’m a monster now. And I’m hungry.” “Meera!” Anotoine whines. “Prae! Please.
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 SHANReal 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 SHANOne of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
DARREN SHANConfidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
DARREN SHANBut you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
DARREN SHANWhat are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
DARREN SHANWhen it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
DARREN SHAN