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Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.

Darren Shan

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
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.
DARREN SHAN

Assuming Assumption Life Things
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
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
If mankind’s destined to bite the bullet, let’s bite it and be damned.
DARREN SHAN

Bites Bullets Mankind
Throw up whatever’s making you sick, Darren,” he said, “then get your behind back in here.
DARREN SHAN

Darren Said Sick
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
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
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.
DARREN SHAN

Always Fall Learn Small Some
… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHAN

Foolish Speak Young
The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
DARREN SHAN

Moon Powerful Wall
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.
DARREN SHAN

Black Important Mean
No, thats not how it happened… Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful… His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I’ll even carry them with me after I go.
DARREN SHAN

Awful Burning Dying
It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
DARREN SHAN

Perfect Say World
But you’re like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We’re both weird, which is why we get along.
DARREN SHAN

Different Freak Outsiders

Maybe you’re going insane.” “Maybe,” agreed Kernel. “I was joking.” “I wasn’t.

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