But you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
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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beg 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
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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
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When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew – even the gods themselves – would condemn him for it, Jebel didn’t think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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You didn’t want to die. Most mortals don’t, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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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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Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.
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No, 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.
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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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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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sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others– even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit
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I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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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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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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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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I’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.
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