Top 100 Darren Shan Quotes
#1. Thanks for saving me back there larten
errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant
Darren Shan
#2. I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.
Jamie Waylett
#3. I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
Darren Shan
#4. Death is not the end. It is a midway state.
Darren Shan
#5. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.
Darren Shan
#6. The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.
Darren Shan
#7. Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.
Darren Shan
#9. 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
#11. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
Darren Shan
#12. The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Darren Shan
#13. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#14. Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
Darren Shan
#15. But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
Darren Shan
#16. It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
Darren Shan
#17. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying
Darren Shan
#18. They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
Darren Shan
#19. 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?
Darren Shan
#21. I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?
Darren Shan
#22. 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
#23. Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods.
We didn't keep watch on the world around us.
And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.
Darren Shan
#24. 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.
Darren Shan
#25. I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, Beranabus grunts.
Darren Shan
#26. 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
#27. It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu
Darren Shan
#28. 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.
Darren Shan
#29. Normal people don't know how lucky - how blessed - they are.
Darren Shan
#30. I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!
Darren Shan
#31. Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.
Darren Shan
#32. It's the darkness when a light is quenched, the silence when a sound fades. It takes the final breath from the smallest insect and the mightiest king. It knows us all, stalks us all, and in the end claims us all.
Darren Shan
#33. I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.
Darren Shan
#34. The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
Darren Shan
#35. 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)
Darren Shan
#36. The dead are the best listeners in the world. The corpse takes it all in, never interrupts, doesn't criticize me, lets me waffle on for as long as I like.
Darren Shan
#37. Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
Darren Shan
#38. One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.
Darren Shan
#39. He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says.
"A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.
Darren Shan
#40. 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.
Darren Shan
#41. If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
Darren Shan
#42. The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
Darren Shan
#43. 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
#44. 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.
Darren Shan
#45. Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails
Darren Shan
#46. pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet
Darren Shan
#47. One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
Darren Shan
#48. I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.
Darren Shan
#49. I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.
Darren Shan
#50. Reading has always been the great love of my life.
Darren Shan
#51. The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
Darren Shan
#52. But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.
Darren Shan
#53. The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.
Darren Shan
#54. 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?
Darren Shan
#55. I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.
Darren Shan
#56. 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.
Darren Shan
#57. Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
Darren Shan
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait ... in the shades.
Darren Shan
#61. 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.
Darren Shan
#62. That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.
Darren Shan
#63. 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.
Darren Shan
#64. Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
Darren Shan
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172
Darren Shan
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Power always impresses the young and foolish.
Darren Shan
#72. The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.
Darren Shan
#73. If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
Darren Shan
#74. 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.
Darren Shan
#75. I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
Darren Shan
#76. Shark snorts. Hope? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.
Darren Shan
#77. That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right!
Darren Shan
#78. My advice," he added in a whisper, "would be to make your peace with the gods, for I fear you will face them shortly.
Darren Shan
#79. Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
Darren Shan
#80. I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
Darren Shan
#82. You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?
Darren Shan
#83. 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
#84. Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
Darren Shan
#85. This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
Darren Shan
#86. You are a creature of the darkness, the same as myself and Mr. Dowling. Like us, I fear that you will end up destined to play a cruel, vicious part in the shaping of the future. Some of us cannot escape the damnable reach of fate.
Darren Shan
#87. But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
Darren Shan
#88. Cars frighten me. They look vicious. Growling, screeching, fast-moving assassins.
-Bec
Darren Shan
#89. Maybe you're going insane."
"Maybe," agreed Kernel.
"I was joking."
"I wasn't.
Darren Shan
#90. 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.
Darren Shan
#92. 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.'
Darren Shan
#93. First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!
Darren Shan
#94. Mr. Crepsley "What are you doing?"
Darren "Looking for fangs."
Mr. Crepsley "We do not grow fangs, you ass!
Darren Shan
#95. No, thats not how it happened ... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful ... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.
Darren Shan
#96. 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.
Darren Shan
#98. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
Darren Shan
#99. 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
#100. You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.
Darren Shan
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