“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Birth of a Killer
“If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Birth of a Killer
“It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Birth of a Killer
“Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Birth of a Killer
“Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116”
― Darren Shan, quote from Birth of a Killer
Darren Shan
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
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“An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, quote from Interred with Their Bones
“Can I come back tomorrow? And if so, do I get to go first?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, “Please sir, might I have some more?” would be ignominious, except that he isn’t shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ignominious illustrations. They are shamefully weak because the person who drew them is not an artist.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from The Willoughbys
“Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking at me, but into me. She was pulling me to her with her eyes, like she used to do. All of a sudden I could see the light that was Mama's shining out of her eyes. I couldn't help smiling at it.
'Be careful,' my heart warned me.
But I was having a hard time remembering that there as anything to be careful about. Because if I just looked at Mama's eyes...I could tell that the part of her I thought had gone away forever was still there and glowing, only from deep down inside her.”
― Katherine Hannigan, quote from Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
― Watchman Nee, quote from The Normal Christian Life
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