“Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"
Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“It was an age of tragic mistakes.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren -- if you accept it, it has no power over you.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“But what Desmond didn't tell you is -- by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“What sort of a world is it where evil is born of an act of goodness?
-Vancha March”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. "Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there -- it sounds like great fun.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk
“I should have touched him. I missed my chance to find out what he was.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Teeth
“He slowly turned around. “What is love? In English.” I raised my brows. “Love, in English, is love?” “What is it in Spanish?” I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. “Amore?” He shook his head ever so slightly. “No. Love in Spanish is you.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, quote from Exit West
“Chris’s willowy fingers dug into his thighs and hers closed over his ears and he stopped hearing the soup sound of her mouth and felt the brief pain of her teeth nipping the drawn foreskin and the throb of his groin pumping the teeming fluid into her throat, stopping her gentle voice and dripping from her chords that sung the music of her lonely heart. Her hair lay athwart in clean strands on his body and for the next silent minute he was the sanest man on earth, bled of his seed, rid of his mind.”
― J.P. Donleavy, quote from The Ginger Man
“Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from The Other Side of the Story
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