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 SHANPower always impresses the young and foolish.
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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.
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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.
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
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beg you. You’re civilised people. Help me!” “We can’t,” Prae says coldly. “Even if we wanted to – and personally I have no problem with him gutting you – we couldn’t. He’s not ours to control. He’s one of your specimens. You helped create him – now you have to deal with him
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If he comes in the dark, then it’s KYAG Time!” – Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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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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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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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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You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You’ll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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