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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
Darren Shan
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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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Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall? Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.
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Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
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If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
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But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
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Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.
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