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.
DARREN SHANI’d like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can’t. It’s not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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Quick! 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?
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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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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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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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I don’t think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don’t. Photos and videos don’t capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
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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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Throw up whatever’s making you sick, Darren,” he said, “then get your behind back in here.
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The 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.
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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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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