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Power always impresses the young and foolish.

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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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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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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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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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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Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
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I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
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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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Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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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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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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The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch. - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
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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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Maybe you're going insane. Maybe, agreed Kernel. I was joking. I wasn't.
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If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
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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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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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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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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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What are you doing? Looking for my fangs. We don't grow fangs you idiot!
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