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" 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 out of 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. "
― Darren Shan , Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
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" TWENTY-SEVEN I ACTED SURPRISED WHEN MOM GOT off the phone that Monday morning and told me Steve had recovered. She was excited and did a little dance with me and Annie in the kitchen. “He snapped out of it by himself?” Dad asked. “Yes,” she said. “The doctors can’t understand it, but nobody’s complaining!” “Incredible,” Dad muttered. “Maybe it’s a miracle,” Annie said, and I had to turn my head aside to hide my smile. Some miracle! While Mom went off to see Mrs. Leonard, I started out for school. I was half-afraid the sunlight would burn me when I left the house, but of course it didn’t. Mr. Crepsley had told me I would be able to move around during the day. I wondered, from time to time, if it had been a bad dream. It seemed crazy, looking back. Deep down I knew it was real, but I tried believing otherwise, and sometimes almost did. "
― Darren Shan , Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
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" Il fatto è che nella vita reale, quando commetti una sciocchezza, di solito la paghi. Nei libri, gli eroi possono fare tutti gli errori che vogliono. Qualunque cosa facciano, va a finire bene. I cattivi vengono sconfitti, i problemi si sistemano e tutto finisce in gloria. Nella vita reale [...] se attraversi una strada trafficata senza guardare, vieni investito da una macchina. Se cadi da un albero ti rompi qualcosa.
La vita reale e dura, crudele. Non le importa nulla degli eroi, dei finali lieti e di come dovrebbero essere le cose. Nella vita reale succedono tante disgrazie. Le persone muoiono, le battaglie vengono perse. Il male spesso vince. "
― Darren Shan , Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)