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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.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
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London
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D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
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I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.
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No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.
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For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
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But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.
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Life is a challenge he once told me, and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
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She was a beautiful woman. Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. She just had very bad taste in underwear … And in boyfriends, I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that
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If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.
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I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
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He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.
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I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
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Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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