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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
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D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
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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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Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.
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When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. I have gravely underestimated you, Darren, he said. I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.
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Maybe you're going insane. Maybe, agreed Kernel. I was joking. I wasn't.
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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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Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
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