“You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“In the beginning Grubbs created the heavens and the earth, and everything was dark. Then Grubbs said, ‘Let there be light!’”
And there was light.
Coolio!”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“Kernel grins. “To the death, Master Grady?”
“To the death, Master Fleck,” I grin back.
Then we both say together, “But not ours!”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“Lord Loss sows all the sorrows of the world
Lord Loss seeds the grief-starched trees
In the center of the web, lowly Lord Loss bows his head
Mangled hands, naked eyes
Fanged snakes his soul line
Curled inside like textured sin
Bloody, curdled sheets for skin
In the center of the web, vile Lord Loss torments the dead
Over strands of red, Lord Loss crawls
Dispensing pain, despising all
Shuns friends, nurtures foes
Ravages hope, breeds woe
Drinks moons, devours suns
Twirls his thumbs till the reaper comes
In the center of the web, lush Lord Loss is all that’s left”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt.
The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“He’s talking to rocks now,” Kernel says.
“A definite lunatic,” Kirilli purrs.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“People need devils and dark gods, if only to give them a foe to rally against, an obstacle to overcome. Your people understood that there can be no light without darkness, no good without evil, no triumph without setbacks. You can't kill me because I'm part of all that you are, all you've done and plan to do. You don't have to like me. You can even loathe me. But you must accept me.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate, we'll have to readjust the pieces a few moves shy of the finish.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
“I know the names of every intelligent being, the spots on the wings of every butterfly that broke out of a cocoon, the genetic codes of the simplest and most complex of creatures. I know how suns functioned, how worlds formed, how life evolved. All of the secrets of the old universes are mine. They can be yours too, if you want me to share, though I suspect you aren't bothered.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hell's Heroes
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“Oh, Alice, I’m afraid you’ve really fallen into a rabbit hole this time,”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Fate
“remember what had happened. ‘I’ll just peep up through the hole in the cloud and see”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don’t conquer anything except things in yourself…. The act of writing justifies poetry. Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, quote from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“These days people act like love is an island, they all want to swim to it but no one wants to get wet.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Kindly Ones
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