Top 100 Darren Shan Quotes
#1. Death is not the end. It is a midway state.
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#3. Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
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#4. The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
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#5. Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
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#6. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying
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#7. Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?
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#9. I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?
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#10. All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
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#11. I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, Beranabus grunts.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Normal people don't know how lucky - how blessed - they are.
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#14. I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.
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#15. The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
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#16. A 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)
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#17. We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments it's as if me, my brother and uncle are together again, relaxing in Dervish's study, sharing a joke, not a care in the world.
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#18. If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
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#19. The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
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#20. Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.
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#21. pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet
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#22. Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!"
"Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
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#23. It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.
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#24. One of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at the creature, trying to wriggle free, gathering my energy to fight back. before I can, the beasts laughs and says, Surely you recognise me.
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#25. Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt.
The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met.
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#26. Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
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#27. 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.
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#28. If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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#29. Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
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#30. That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right!
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#31. Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
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#32. I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
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#34. You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?
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#35. 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.
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#36. Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
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#37. But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
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#38. Cars frighten me. They look vicious. Growling, screeching, fast-moving assassins.
-Bec
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#39. Maybe you're going insane."
"Maybe," agreed Kernel.
"I was joking."
"I wasn't.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
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#42. First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!
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#43. But Steve will die if I do that!" I cried.
"Yes," he agreed. "It is your assistance or his life."
"That's not much of a choice," I grumbled.
"No," he admitted, "it is not. But it is the only one I offer.
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#44. You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.
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#45. The easy way is not always the right way.
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#46. 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.
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#47. When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.
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#48. Are cobwebs a treat where you come from?
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#49. Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.
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#50. The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.
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#51. Vampires are always saying good-bye. We never stop anywhere very long. We are forever picking up our roots and moving on to new pastures. It is our way.
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#52. Then set the hounds loose, boy - it's time to kick demonic ass!
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#53. The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal
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#54. It helps to know where you are going before you set out.
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#55. Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!
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#56. My thoughts were a jumble.
I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes.
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#58. Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge.
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#59. 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.
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#60. A man should know when it is time to step aside.
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#61. He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
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#62. Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there
it sounds like great fun.
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#63. If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time! - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
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#64. Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
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#65. I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
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#70. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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.
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#75. But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.
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#76. Melissa had faith in God and Theo had faith in the fertile Boratto testicles.
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#77. 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.
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#80. You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.
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#81. Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last ... and died.
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#82. A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!
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#83. The brains of the undead do nothing for me. The taste is vile, nothing like the juicy, enticing brains of the living.
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#84. My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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#85. I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.
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#86. Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.
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#87. I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I hope we meet again," said Ramman.
"I do too," Tel Hesani said, then added underneath his breath, "Although I fear it won't be in this world.
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#90. Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren
if you accept it, it has no power over you.
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#91. You should take more pride in your appearance," I tell him. "You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
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#92. They used to call me Quicksilver," he whispered, smiling hollowly. "Fastest hands in the world." Then the smile vanished. his eyes flashed. And, like a silver of deadly mercury, he attacked ...
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#93. Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?
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#94. 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.
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#95. But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.
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#96. In the Demonata's universe there was always something else to kill.
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#97. No," I said softly. "You have to give it to me. You have to use it on Steve. He's dying. You can't let him die."
"I most certainly can.
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#98. I do not mock the beliefs of others. This world is large enough for a thousand religions. Every race has the right to its own.
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#99. This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale.
It's insane.
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#100. For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
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