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 SHANConfidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
More Darren Shan Quotes
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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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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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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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Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
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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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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 mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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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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A world of “if”s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time… but I couldn’t. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
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I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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Your spikes have gone floppy.
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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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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
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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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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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