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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.

Darren Shan

Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHAN

Challenges Life Mean
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 SHAN

Blood Disgusting Night Running
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 SHAN

Death Finals Horrible Sleep Unfair
Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
DARREN SHAN

Courses Nightmare
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.
DARREN SHAN

Helping Hero Limits
It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
DARREN SHAN

Perfect Say World
Your spikes have gone floppy.
DARREN SHAN

Course Gone Nightmare
One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
DARREN SHAN

Disorder Severe Worry
Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
DARREN SHAN

Destiny Faces Whatever
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
DARREN SHAN

Belief Feelings Men Nothing Pain
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
DARREN SHAN

Fool House Pinder
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.
DARREN SHAN

Always Fall Learn Small Some
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.
DARREN SHAN

Fight Hero Real Truth
There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
DARREN SHAN

Black Important Mean
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
DARREN SHAN

Brother Smart Vampire War
Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
DARREN SHAN

Insane Joking Kernel
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
DARREN SHAN

Attract Girl Pride Ugly
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
DARREN SHAN

Forgotten Light Night
If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHAN

Bites Bullets Mankind
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.
DARREN SHAN

Choices Destiny Taught
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
DARREN SHAN

Bliss Extinction Ignorance
… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Speak Young
Cirque du Freak’ is the best vampire series ever.
DARREN SHAN

Freak Series Vampire
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
DARREN SHAN

Green Hair Mean
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?
DARREN SHAN

Hug Vampire
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.
DARREN SHAN

Awful Burning Dying
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
DARREN SHAN

Dance Fall Finally Forever Men

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