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Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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A world of ifs, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
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Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
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Maybe you're going insane. Maybe, agreed Kernel. I was joking. I wasn't.
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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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Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren, he said, then get your behind back in here.
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but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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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.
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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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