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1793bc4
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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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c569b44
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This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
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c67c4a6
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Kernel grins. "To the death, Master Grady?" "To the death, Master Fleck," I grin back. Then we both say together, "But not ours!"
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kernel-fleck
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Darren Shan |
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bfc16f3
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Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a monster now. And I'm hungry." "Meera!" Anotoine whines. "Prae! Please, I 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..
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Darren Shan |
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7043182
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First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!"
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Darren Shan |
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be03c00
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The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
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destiny
destruction
werewolf
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Darren Shan |
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703e39f
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If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
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destiny
mankind
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Darren Shan |
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3cf2593
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Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met.
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Darren Shan |
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beda189
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Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.
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darren-shan
election
human
larten-crepsley
mortal
mortals
politics
power
qualities
strength
vampaneze
vampire
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Darren Shan |
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bc089a0
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Alive is better than dead. Always.
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Darren Shan |
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5a6fb73
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That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.
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Darren Shan |
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75fd63a
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I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her."
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Darren Shan |
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5f87e97
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Mr. Crepsley was every bit as composed as he'd sworn he would be. He didn't even shed a tear when the funeral litter was set alight. It was only later, when he was alone in his cell, that he wept loudly, and his cries echoed through the corridors and the tunnels of Vampire Mountain, far in the cold, lonely dawn.
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Darren Shan |
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fabffbd
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Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
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darren-shan
humor
innuendo
larten-crepsley
mr-crepsley
sexual-innuendo
vampire
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Darren Shan |
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7c95c35
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Normal people don't know how lucky--how blessed--they are.
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normal
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Darren Shan |
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8f86994
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For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
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Darren Shan |
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30c56a0
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As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.
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Darren Shan |
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3f2336b
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If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so nobody knows what I'm going through. I'm alone. I always will be. That's my life now. That's just the way it is.
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Darren Shan |
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88e922a
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It's the darkness when a light is quenched, the silence when a sound fades. It takes the final breath from the smallest insect and the mightiest king. It knows us all, stalks us all, and in the end claims us all.
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Darren Shan |
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b2f538c
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Grubbs cries out and wraps his arms around the little girl, hugging her like a doll, weeping while we stare at the pair of them, bewildered. When he finally stops crying, he releases Bec and grubs shakily at her, then casts his gaze over the rest of us, his features firm. "Show of hands. Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass?" Five arms rise immediately."
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Darren Shan |
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d9d0e3b
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Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172
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Darren Shan |
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fa53981
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People need devils and dark gods, if only to give them a foe to rally against, an obstacle to overcome. Your people understood that there can be no light without darkness, no good without evil, no triumph without setbacks. You can't kill me because I'm part of all that you are, all you've done and plan to do. You don't have to like me. You can even loathe me. But you must accept me.
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Darren Shan |
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bc68c79
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They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
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Darren Shan |
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afd5c44
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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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lonely
love
movement
shades
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Darren Shan |
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58db282
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Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her.
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Darren Shan |
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b63ebae
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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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Darren Shan |
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963da2a
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Do not be such a baby," he jeered, tugging my hands free. "It hurts!" I howled. "Of course it does." He laughed. "It hurt me too. Did you think becoming a vampire was easy? Get used to the pain. Much of it lies ahead."
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Darren Shan |
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2cd1d1e
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The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.
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equality
god
p275
thin-executioner
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Darren Shan |
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5cbeeff
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To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.
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Darren Shan |
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de4bdfc
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It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.
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kernel-fleck
sacrifice
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Darren Shan |
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d6321e4
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Mr. Crepsley "What are you doing?"
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Darren Shan |
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da75ecb
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But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
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Darren Shan |
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74c0e09
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one of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at the creature, trying to wriggle free, gathering my energy to fight back. before I can, the beasts laughs and says, "Surely you recognise me."
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Darren Shan |
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1db2208
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We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments it's as if me, my brother and uncle are together again, relaxing in Dervish's study, sharing a joke, not a care in the world.
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Darren Shan |
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4d6a9e8
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Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad -por desagradable que esta pueda ser-- a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.
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Darren Shan |
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9345bdb
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He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs."
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Darren Shan |
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a6e68f3
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Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and died.
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Darren Shan |
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2b5536b
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Those who hate are doomed to become slaves to their hatred. It consumes them like a disease, but it is an illness they cannot-or do not want to-live without.
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Darren Shan |
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6cbf158
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You stole a vampire's spider@" Steve shouted. "You stole from a member of the undead!"
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Darren Shan |
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50249d4
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But Steve will die if I do that!" I cried. "Yes," he agreed. "It is your assistance or his life." "That's not much of a choice," I grumbled. "No," he admitted, "it is not. But it is the only one I offer."
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Darren Shan |
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41d98ba
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I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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demons
dinosaurs
grubbs-grady
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Darren Shan |
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a2757e2
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I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.
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lord-loss
snakes
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Darren Shan |
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86a2dc4
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I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.
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Darren Shan |
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e43cb86
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They're going to demand your death, Darren.
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Darren Shan |