242 Quotes by Darren Shan

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

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

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 clock.

You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insists you do otherwise. Sometimes you got burned. I've signed many times. Roasted once or twice. You have to live with the fire. Because if you start thinking too much or playing safe, you're lost to its wondrous charms forever. You become part of the real world again, the mundane, the ordinary, from where there's no escape. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)

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

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.

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.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.