Darren Shan

Author

1972-07-02

Quotes by Darren Shan

• We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher and falling.

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• As long as you're breathing, your story's still going.

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• 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.

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• The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. 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. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.

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• A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

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• 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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• 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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• Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

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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.

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• Yes? she asked, eyeing me guardedly.I struck out a hand and said Shake.Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. One good fight doesn't make you a warrior, she said.Shake! I repeated angrily.And if I don't? she asked.I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do, I growled.Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. Power to you, Darren Shan, she said gruffly.Power, I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

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• 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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• Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

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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.

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• 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.

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• You thought I was a werewolf? Dervish asks.Yes I answer hollowly.You ass.

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• There's something different about you, he says.I've started styling my hair differently, I laugh.Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.

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• You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

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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.

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• Yes? she asked, eyeing me guardedly.I struck out a hand and said Shake.Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. One good fight doesn't make you a warrior, she said.Shake! I repeated angrily.And if I don't? she asked.I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do, I growled.Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. Power to you, Darren Shan, she said gruffly.Power, I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

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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.

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