242 Quotes by Darren Shan

There are some things in life we can never understand, things we are better off not understanding.

We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments it’s as if me, my brother and uncle are together again, relaxing in Dervish’s study, sharing a joke, not a care in the world.

The world won’t end with a bang or a whimper. It’ll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

It helps to know where you are going before you set out.

Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

You don’t recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.

Those who hate are doomed to become slaves to their hatred. It consumes them like a disease, but it is an illness they cannot–or do not want to–live without.

They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don’t ever forget it.

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.