Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
DARREN SHANI 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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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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Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!” “Haven’t you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
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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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What use was money if you didn’t have the time to enjoy it?
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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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I know that no matter how lonely I get, I’ll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don’t leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait…in the shades.
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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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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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If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
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Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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What are you doing?” “Looking for my fangs.” “We don’t grow fangs you idiot!
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Like worms, we’ve grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always – will always be – there.
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One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can’t worry about the dead, only the living.
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If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
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