Darren Shan Quotes

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I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

Darren Shan
But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

Darren Shan
If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Darren Shan
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
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
You should take more pride in your appearance, I tell him. You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

Darren Shan
Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Darren Shan
No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.

Darren Shan
One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

Darren Shan
But you're like me, he says. An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Darren Shan
He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

Darren Shan
I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Darren Shan
The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Darren Shan
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.

Darren Shan
Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

Darren Shan
But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Darren Shan
I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

Darren Shan
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

Darren Shan
Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. 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
When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

Darren Shan
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
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.

Darren Shan
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
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Darren Shan