Quotes from Darren Shan

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

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.

Even in death may you triumphant

The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

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

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.

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.

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.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

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.