Quotes from Darren Shan

The urge to throw myself over the edge is strong. To die so beautifully, so perfectly… To fly for a handful of seconds… Become part of the sea, dashed against the rocks until I'm nothing, then swept away to the Otherworld in the company of fish, mermaids, and all the other creatures of the deep…

nobody in the entire world will ever say anything to me again.

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.

caterwauling

I hoped the writing would help me get things straight in my head, especially with regards to Kurda, but I was just as confused by the end as I'd been at the beginning. No matter how I looked at it, I couldn't help feeling that Kurda had been both a hero and a villain. Things would be simpler if he was one or the other, but I couldn't pigeonhole him. It was just too complicated.

Don't you feel bad for nominating him, after what he did, leading the vampaneze against us? No, Vancha said bluntly. I don't approve of his actions, and if I'd been at Council, I wouldn't have spoken up on his behalf. But he was following his heart. He acted for the good of the clan. Misguided as he was, I don't think Kurda was a real traitor. He acted poorly, but his motives were pure.

nephew or niece

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.

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

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

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

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

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

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.

If you were a girl... I'd kiss you!

Gli eventi chiave del passato non possono essere cambiati, ma le persone coinvolte si. Evanna mi aveva detto che se fosse tornata indietro e avesse ucciso Adolf Hitler, l'universo l'avrebbe rimpiazzato con qualcun'altro. Gli eventi fondamentali della seconda guerra mondiale si sarebbero verificati con le stesse modalità, scatenati però da una figura differente. [...] Quindi non potevo modificare il corso della storia intorno a me, ma potevo togliermi di mezzo.

I don't like you, Debbie snarled. You're cocky and arrogant. You don't have to like me, Steve retorted. This isn't a popularity contest. It's a matter of life and death.

My thoughts were a jumble. I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes.

I had to go along with them. Indecision is the source of chaos, as Paris Skyle used to say.

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.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

I've endured the Trials of Initiation twice, a terrifying journey through an underground stream, encounters with killers, a bear and wild boars. How bad can school be?

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose? You would have been better off living five years as a human than five hundred as a monster.