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You stole from a member of the undead

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

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered.

The easy way is not always the right way.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.

That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

Thanks for saving me back there larten
errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant

Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist.
It can't claim me.
In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

I do not mock the beliefs of others. This world is large enough for a thousand religions. Every race has the right to its own.

This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale.
It's insane.

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.

I'm ALIVE!!!!!!!

Wi-Fi is a blessing from the gods.

You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

It was an age of tragic mistakes.

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.

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time! - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

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.

But you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?
Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

Even in death may you be triumphant.

Indecision is the source of chaos. - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.

First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!

You should take more pride in your appearance," I tell him. "You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

No," I said softly. "You have to give it to me. You have to use it on Steve. He's dying. You can't let him die."
"I most certainly can.

Did you hear it?"
"Just about," I said, trembling nervously.
"That's not good enough." She frowned. "Just about will kill you.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!

In the Demonata's universe there was always something else to kill.

Melissa had faith in God and Theo had faith in the fertile Boratto testicles.

Shark snorts. Hope? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.

Kernel grins. "To the death, Master Grady?"
"To the death, Master Fleck," I grin back.
Then we both say together, "But not ours!

Normal people don't know how lucky - how blessed - they are.

They're going to demand your death, Darren.

I'm hungry," he whimpered instead.
"Food is on its way."
"No," he said. "The other kind of hunger."
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Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.

It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge.

Your spikes have gone floppy,

Maybe we should wait ... wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

Who you looking at

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

My eyes! I'm blind!

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

pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet

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.

We don't grow fangs, you idiot!

Even in death may you triumphant

It helps to know where you are going before you set out.

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.

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.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Death is not the end. It is a midway state.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

My thoughts were a jumble.
I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes.

Alive is better than dead. Always.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?

Maybe you're going insane."
"Maybe," agreed Kernel.
"I was joking."
"I wasn't.

One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

dressed to kill Koyasan

Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren
if you accept it, it has no power over you.

Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider
you're right!

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

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

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.

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says.
"A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.