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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
People
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Lifetime
Rule
Land
Dies
Suffering
Another
Cowardly
Better
Guilt

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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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He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
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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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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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There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
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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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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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Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren, he said, then get your behind back in here.
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Meddling, smug, stupid little... She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me! No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.
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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.
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But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.
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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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Maybe you're going insane. Maybe, agreed Kernel. I was joking. I wasn't.
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I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
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Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
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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.
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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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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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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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