Quote

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
Things
Often
Heroes
Life
Lost
Hero
People
Doesn
Happen
Happens
Winning
Endings
Truth
Dies
Fights
Care
Fighting
Wins
Real
Happy
Nasty
Way
Evil
Cruel

More quotes by Darren Shan

Image
I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
Darren Shan
Image
I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.
Darren Shan
Image
If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
Darren Shan
Image
Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.
Darren Shan
Image
A world of ifs, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
Darren Shan
Image
But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.
Darren Shan
Image
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
Darren Shan
Image
Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
Darren Shan
Image
Life is a challenge he once told me, and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
Darren Shan
Image
If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
Darren Shan
Image
Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
Darren Shan
Image
Maybe you're going insane. Maybe, agreed Kernel. I was joking. I wasn't.
Darren Shan
Image
He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
Darren Shan
Image
Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren, he said, then get your behind back in here.
Darren Shan
Image
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch. - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Darren Shan
Image
I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.
Darren Shan
Image
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
Darren Shan
Image
Power always impresses the young and foolish.
Darren Shan
Image
Meddling, smug, stupid little... She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me! No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.
Darren Shan
Image
Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
Darren Shan