Top 100 Shan's Quotes

#1. 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

Shan's Quotes #8686
#2. Death is not the end. It is a midway state.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #9659
#3. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #14608
#4. hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come

Eliot Pattison

Shan's Quotes #14771
#5. The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #15450
#6. Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #16224
#7. 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

Shan's Quotes #17384
#8. Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Terry Pratchett

Shan's Quotes #18104
#9. Alive is better than dead. Always.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #47924
#10. You need to let the spirits have their way Shan

Eliot Pattison

Shan's Quotes #51159
#11. 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

Shan's Quotes #65583
#12. 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

Shan's Quotes #71059
#13. dressed to kill Koyasan

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #77061
#14. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #77947
#15. The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #87107
#16. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #89610
#17. 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

Shan's Quotes #99102
#18. Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #104228
#19. 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

Shan's Quotes #104889
#20. But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #107643
#21. It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #108444
#22. 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

Shan's Quotes #111605
#23. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #112070
#24. 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

Shan's Quotes #135098
#25. 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

Shan's Quotes #142185
#26. A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

Shan Sa

Shan's Quotes #154608
#27. 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

Shan's Quotes #160134
#28. 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

Shan's Quotes #162092
#29. 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

Shan's Quotes #162489
#30. 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

Shan's Quotes #163618
#31. 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

Shan's Quotes #168506
#32. Wi-Fi is a blessing from the gods.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #176086
#33. 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

Shan's Quotes #177889
#34. I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #182111
#35. 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

Shan's Quotes #289599
#36. And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

C.S. Lewis

Shan's Quotes #294202
#37. The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #305383
#38. He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says.
"A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #339876
#39. 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

Shan's Quotes #342847
#40. If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #354272
#41. 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

Shan's Quotes #374046
#42. ... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.

E. M. Forster

Shan's Quotes #382036
#43. 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

Shan's Quotes #401634
#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

Shan's Quotes #410470
#45. 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

Shan's Quotes #501403
#46. 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

Shan's Quotes #520127
#47. 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

Shan's Quotes #561618
#48. I reply with a letter as brief as his: 'My brother, after my first battle the only thing I now worship is the sun, a star that represents death's constancy. Beware of the moon, which reflects our world of beauty. It waxes and wanes, it is treacherous and ephemeral. We will all die some day ...

Shan Sa

Shan's Quotes #562538
#49. I shan't ask you how you do, ma'am: to enquire after a lady's health implies that she is not in her best looks. Besides, I can see that you are in high bloom.

Georgette Heyer

Shan's Quotes #653705
#50. Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #672337
#51. 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

Shan's Quotes #703040
#52. To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

Li Shan

Shan's Quotes #704429
#53. Struggles and challenges are ordinary, it's how you deal with them that can make you extraordinary.

Shan Fazelbhoy

Shan's Quotes #732236
#54. Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'

Richard Griffiths

Shan's Quotes #733111
#55. In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

Jasmine Guinness

Shan's Quotes #734862
#56. 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

Shan's Quotes #743591
#57. Shark snorts. Hope? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #755662
#58. That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right!

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #757987
#59. I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #766971
#60. Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage. - Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch. - And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it.

George MacDonald

Shan's Quotes #810427
#61. I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Edith Wharton

Shan's Quotes #848296
#62. 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

Shan's Quotes #893765
#63. 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

Shan's Quotes #924049
#64. 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

Shan's Quotes #933826
#65. If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so nobody knows what I'm going through. I'm alone. I always will be. That's my life now. That's just the way it is.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #945192
#66. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.

David Mitchell

Shan's Quotes #1000163
#67. There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

John Keats

Shan's Quotes #1008164
#68. Did you hear it?"
"Just about," I said, trembling nervously.
"That's not good enough." She frowned. "Just about will kill you.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1012047
#69. You can't save everyone.
It's not an option.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1018017
#70. Then set the hounds loose, boy - it's time to kick demonic ass!

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1024154
#71. There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

Marcel Proust

Shan's Quotes #1045226
#72. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!

Joss Sheldon

Shan's Quotes #1063649
#73. It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.'
'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?'
'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those.

Iain Banks

Shan's Quotes #1083610
#74. Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Shan's Quotes #1085941
#75. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1088892
#76. Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1110470
#77. 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.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1130704
#78. 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.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1158329
#79. If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time! - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1169721
#80. 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.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1205433
#81. 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

Shan's Quotes #1275798
#82. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1359906
#83. But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1371237
#84. I shall sustain a massive erection, that's what, and I shan't be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

Stephen Fry

Shan's Quotes #1431867
#85.
Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

Shan's Quotes #1446017
#86. When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

Gary Snyder

Shan's Quotes #1455147
#87. I shan't make a fuss over the babe's father.

Mary E. Pearson

Shan's Quotes #1468779
#88. Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

James K. Morrow

Shan's Quotes #1495746
#89. I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

Jamie Waylett

Shan's Quotes #1525459
#90. The Yellow River is boundless
flowing east without cease
on and on never clearing
while everyone's lifespan ends
and ifyou would ride the clouds
how will you grow wings
unless while your hair is black
you make an effort moving or still

Han-shan

Shan's Quotes #1545460
#91. Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.

Shan Sa

Shan's Quotes #1549333
#92. Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1584716
#93. Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1586967
#94. The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

David Burnett

Shan's Quotes #1592884
#95. A greyish substance that might be blood. Remembering the spray I caught earlier, I wipe a hand across my face and it comes away wet and sticky with the same grey liquid. "I'd kill for a shower," I mutter, chuckling darkly at the sick joke. Juni cuts a long, jagged line through the creature's flesh,

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1701013
#96. 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

Shan's Quotes #1716396
#97. In the Demonata's universe there was always something else to kill.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1729007
#98. 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.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1765826
#99. As for advice - write as much as you can! Time's ticking, and if you don't throw everything you have into your stories today, you might find yourself on the wrong side of THE END tomorrow!

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1814012
#100. This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale.
It's insane.

Darren Shan

Shan's Quotes #1840984

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