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 SHANIf mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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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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Look at me!” I roar. “Do you think you’ll be the first I’ve killed today? I wasn’t a murderer, but you changed me. I’m a monster now. And I’m hungry.” “Meera!” Anotoine whines. “Prae! Please.
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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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Your spikes have gone floppy.
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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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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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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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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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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.
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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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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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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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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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They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves.
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