“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. 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. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.” -Darren Shan, "A living nightmare"
This quote reaches out to me and has more often then I could believe, because people want to hold onto the fantasy of things rather then the reality of situations, life isn't fair but its what makes us strong, dealing with the pain and being strong enough to talk about it the next day. I also find it funny how this quote was from a series that is based on vampires, witches, gods and ghouls.
Such truth in those words. Perhaps that's why we are so drawn to books--to escape the harsh reality of everyday life in search of happier endings, even if they are falsely won.
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