Quotes from Darren Shan

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised, Tel Hesani said. But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right.

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.

I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

Who you looking at

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

I'm hungry, he whimpered instead. Food is on its way. No, he said. The other kind of hunger. P198

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.

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.

Grubbs cries out and wraps his arms around the little girl, hugging her like a doll, weeping while we stare at the pair of them, bewildered. When he finally stops crying, he releases Bec and grubs shakily at her, then casts his gaze over the rest of us, his features firm. Show of hands. Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? Five arms rise immediately.

Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172

People need devils and dark gods, if only to give them a foe to rally against, an obstacle to overcome. Your people understood that there can be no light without darkness, no good without evil, no triumph without setbacks. You can't kill me because I'm part of all that you are, all you've done and plan to do. You don't have to like me. You can even loathe me. But you must accept me.

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.

Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her.

You stole a vampire's spider@ Steve shouted. You stole from a member of the undead!

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.

Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.

thanks for saving me back there larten errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant

Mr. Crepsley What are you doing? Darren Looking for fangs. Mr. Crepsley We do not grow fangs, you ass!

Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.

It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and died.