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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.

Darren Shan

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

Demon Thieves
Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you’ve been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can’t be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.
DARREN SHAN

Believe Challenge Hand Heri=Oism
The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
DARREN SHAN

Moon Powerful Wall
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.
DARREN SHAN

Blood Disgusting Night Running
I won’t die. I won’t give those ghouls the pleasure. I’ll live and grow strong. I’ll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
DARREN SHAN

Ghouls Giving Strong
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
Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
DARREN SHAN

Courses Nightmare
What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
DARREN SHAN

Fangs Grows Idiot
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
Power always impresses the young and foolish.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Impress Young
Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.
DARREN SHAN

Chance Die Handled Suicide
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
DARREN SHAN

Green Hair Mean
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten – light’s no good for creatures of the night.
DARREN SHAN

Forgotten Light Night
I sucked blood from one of my best friends
DARREN SHAN

Best Friend Blood
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

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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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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