242 Quotes by 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.

I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin," Beranabus grunts.

War," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Then set the hounds loose, boy - it's time to kick demonic ass!

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

The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.

Normal people don’t know how lucky—how blessed—they are.

This world was made to be cloaked in gray.It wouldn’t feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.