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1 " You 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 , Hell's Heroes (The Demonata, #10)
2 " 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
3 " Students 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 , Vampire Mountain (Cirque Du Freak, #4)
4 " Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled. "
― Darren Shan , Bec (The Demonata, #4)
5 " But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along. "
― Darren Shan , Lord Loss (The Demonata, #1)
6 " Humans 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 , Palace of the Damned (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #3)
7 " Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. "
8 " It 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 , Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #1)
9 " 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 , Demon Thief (The Demonata, #2)
10 " We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling. "
11 " A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! "
― Darren Shan , The Thin Executioner
12 " The 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 , Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
13 " Though 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. "
14 " As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going. "
― Darren Shan , Slawter (The Demonata, #3)
15 " Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. "
16 " 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. "
― Darren Shan , Wolf Island (The Demonata, #8)
17 " If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned. "
18 " You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves. "
19 " The hands of fate keep time on a heart-shaped clock. "
― Darren Shan , The Vampire Prince (Cirque Du Freak, #6)
20 " Even in death, may you be triumphant "
