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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.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
Author
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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
Dies
Suffering
Another
Cowardly
Better
Guilt
People
Suffer
Lifetime
Rule
Land

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That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.
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But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.
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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 mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
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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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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.
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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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The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
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sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit
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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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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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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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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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Even in death may you triumphant
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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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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch. - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
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I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
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Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
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