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• Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

  Darren Shan

  Eye, Fighting, Warrior

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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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  Real, Kids, Past

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• I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

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  Home, Boys, Years

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• If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

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  Night, Made Up Stories, Owl

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

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  Night, Light, Forgotten

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• I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

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  Hero, Limits, Helping

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• Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. 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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  Fall, Humble, Mean

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• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

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  Fall, Suicidal, Thinking

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• But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

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  Art, Thinking, People

  Darren Shan (2011). “Demon Thief (The Demonata, Book 2)”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

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  Tiny, Shut Up, Please

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• ... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

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  Speak, Foolish, Young

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• But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must." -Larten Crepsley

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  Mother, Father, Real

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• Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

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  Stupid, Writing, Play

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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?

  Darren Shan

  Hug, Vampire, Ifs

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• Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

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  Land, People, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Blessed, Appreciate, Magic

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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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  Mean, Hair, Green

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• sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit

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  Pain, Men, Feelings

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