01UndatedYou can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? 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.Darren Shan / quote ↗
02UndatedYou thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks."Yes" I answer hollowly."You ass.Darren Shan / quote ↗
03UndatedThere's something different about you," he says."I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh."Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.Darren Shan / quote ↗
04UndatedReal 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedStudents never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.Darren Shan / quote ↗
06UndatedHer fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.Darren Shan / quote ↗
07UndatedBut you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.Darren Shan / quote ↗
08UndatedYes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly.I struck out a hand and said "Shake."Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said."Shake!" I repeated angrily."And if I don't?" she asked."I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled.Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly."Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.Darren Shan / quote ↗
09UndatedHumans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.Darren Shan / quote ↗
11UndatedIt is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.Darren Shan / quote ↗
12UndatedBut I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.Darren Shan / quote ↗
13UndatedWe have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.Darren Shan / quote ↗
14UndatedA world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!Darren Shan / quote ↗
15UndatedThe thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. 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. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.Darren Shan / quote ↗
16UndatedThough I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.Darren Shan / quote ↗
18UndatedDestiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.Darren Shan / quote ↗
19UndatedThe 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.Darren Shan / quote ↗
21UndatedA true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)Darren Shan / quote ↗
22UndatedYou do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.Darren Shan / quote ↗
