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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.

Darren Shan

I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
DARREN SHAN

Demon Thieves
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.
DARREN SHAN

Defining Moments Faces Matter
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.
DARREN SHAN

Fight Hero Real Truth
Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
DARREN SHAN

Courses Nightmare
So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it’s only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.
DARREN SHAN

Appreciate Blessed Magic
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.
DARREN SHAN

Death Finals Horrible Sleep Unfair
If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
DARREN SHAN

Forever Humanity Turned
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

Better Detours Path Something
One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
DARREN SHAN

Disorder Severe Worry
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.
DARREN SHAN

Choices Destiny Taught
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.
DARREN SHAN

Childhood Heart States
Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.
DARREN SHAN

Insane Joking Kernel
A world of “if”s, 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.
DARREN SHAN

Behind Differences Past Time
I don’t think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don’t. Photos and videos don’t capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
DARREN SHAN

Kids Past Real
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
DARREN SHAN

Beautiful Laughter
The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew – even the gods themselves – would condemn him for it, Jebel didn’t think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
DARREN SHAN

Firsts Pairs Themselves Thinking

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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