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 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.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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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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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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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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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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To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we’ll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher…and falling
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When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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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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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
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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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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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