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.
DARREN SHANCirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
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Like worms, we’ve grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always – will always be – there.
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We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
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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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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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That’s what you taught me – we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives – we just have to make the choice to use it.
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Your spikes have gone floppy.
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You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
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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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