Darren Shan

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For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Animal
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sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit
- Darren Shan
Collection: Pain
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What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!
- Darren Shan
Collection: Idiot
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I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Strong
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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
Collection: Sleep
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Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Sick
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...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Pain
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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
Collection: Running
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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
Collection: Character
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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.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Past
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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.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Heart
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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
Collection: Teacher
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Forever
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The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying
- Darren Shan
Collection: Girl
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Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Mean
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That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Destiny
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
- Darren Shan
Collection: Hunters
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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
Collection: Fall
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For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Dark
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The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Wall
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The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Real
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I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
- Darren Shan
Collection: Thieves
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Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Insane
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Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Wall
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There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Mean
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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Who Cares
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Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
- Darren Shan
Collection: Son
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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
Collection: Night
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... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Speak
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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.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Night
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Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Tiny
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What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?
- Darren Shan
Collection: Use
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Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Stupid
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If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
- Darren Shan
Collection: Dark
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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.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Real
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Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Vampire
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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
- Darren Shan
Collection: Mean
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?
- Darren Shan
Collection: Nightmare
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Your spikes have gone floppy.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Gone
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She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that
- Darren Shan
Collection: Beautiful
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They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Brother
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Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a monster now. And I'm hungry." "Meera!" Anotoine whines. "Prae! Please, I beg you. You're civilised people. Help me!" "We can't," Prae says coldly. "Even if we wanted to - and personally I have no problem with him gutting you - we couldn't. He's not ours to control. He's one of your specimens. You helped create him - now you have to deal with him
- Darren Shan
Collection: Thinking
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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
Collection: Night
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Foolish
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The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Thinking
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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
Collection: Fall
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
- Darren Shan
Collection: House
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You stole from a member of the undead
- Darren Shan
Collection: Members