Top 100 Shan Cai Quotes
#1. One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.
Darren Shan
#2. I hand the cage to him and he takes it firmly in his arms.
'Your hankie smells nice,' he says, almost in a whisper.
Shan Sa
#3. 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
#4. Maybe it will go away,' said Lucy.
'It'll be worse if it does,' said Edmund, 'because then we shan't know where it is. If there is a wasp in the room I like to be able to see it.
C.S. Lewis
#5. ... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.
E. M. Forster
#6. 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
#7. The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
Darren Shan
#8. Two words came to mind as I sat back and summed him up. They were cold and blooded.
D.B. Shan
#9. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West
#10. If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
Darren Shan
#11. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
Shan Sa
#12. 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
#13. He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says.
"A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.
Darren Shan
#14. Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
Russell Brand
#19. Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?
M.F. Moonzajer
#20. The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
Darren Shan
#21. I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.
Darren Shan
#22. And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.
C.S. Lewis
#23. 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
#24. I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.
Shan Sa
#25. Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.
Darren Shan
#26. The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
Darren Shan
#27. 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
#28. Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
Darren Shan
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.
Darren Shan
#33. It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.
Nevil Shute
#35. When I die," said dear and whimsical old Doctor Pycroft, "I shall have a bell hung on my head-stone, with an inscription asking the compassionate passer-by to ring it long and loud. And I shan't get up.
Reginald L. Hine
#36. To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.
Shan Sa
#37. There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia which I should never dream of stating openly."
"Those are just the ones I should like to hear about most," said Diva. "Just a few little titbits.
E.F. Benson
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. The more one understands the world ... the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood. Dakpo to Shan
Eliot Pattison
#41. Reading has always been the great love of my life.
Darren Shan
#42. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
Libba Bray
#43. 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
#44. I am terrified by the dizzying pleasure of it: I am both here and over there; I am be and I am no longer me!
Am I already dead?
Shan Sa
#45. Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
Shan Sa
#46. 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
#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. pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet
Darren Shan
#49. Oh, fine, Eleanor thought. The children of hell shan't go hungry on my watch.
Rainbow Rowell
#50. Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails
Darren Shan
#52. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.
Jean Rhys
#53. I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not.
Beth Fantaskey
#54. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying
Darren Shan
#55. I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
Shan Sa
#56. It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
Darren Shan
#57. But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
Darren Shan
#58. And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.
Anthony Horowitz
#59. Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
Darren Shan
#60. When I get out of the rickshaw I walk slowly towards the school building, taking small steps. All around me girls are running: in the morning the young are as noisy as a flock of sparrows.
Shan Sa
#61. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#62. The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Darren Shan
#63. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
Darren Shan
#64. A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.
Shan Sa
#65. 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
#66. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#69. Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Terry Pratchett
#70. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
#71. Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.
Darren Shan
#72. The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.
Darren Shan
#74. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.
Darren Shan
#75. Death is not the end. It is a midway state.
Darren Shan
#76. 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
#77. Normal people don't know how lucky - how blessed - they are.
Darren Shan
#78. Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.
Li Shan
#79. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.
Norah Lofts
#80. We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
Peter Scott
#81. 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
#82. It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu
Darren Shan
#83. 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
#84. I try very hard to keep my eyes open so that I can look at my beloved.
Shan Sa
#85. I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, Beranabus grunts.
Darren Shan
#86. I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Virginia Woolf
#87. The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit different from any other ordinary person.
Jean Webster
#88. Every man has to die. Choosing oblivion is the only way of triumphing over this.
Shan Sa
#89. 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
#90. I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge.
-the girl who played go
Shan Sa
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?
Darren Shan
#94. Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long,
and I'm not talking in terms of things like success.
It frightens me sometimes
Marc Bolan
#96. 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
#97. I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.
Louisa May Alcott
#98. Life is an infernal loop where the day before yesterday has merged with today, and yesterday has been jettisoned. We think we are moving forward in time, but we are always prisoners of the past.
Shan Sa
#99. 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
#100. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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