Darren Shan Quotes

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

Religion was my entire life. And then, when I came out, religion completely turned their back on me. And I've never really gotten over that.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn't feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that's why I completely fell apart.

A lot of friends have given up on me.

There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It's a very easy feeling to understand - the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.

This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.