Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
Darren ShanYou mean I might end up like you one day?" I asked, alarmed at the thought of sounding so serious and stuffy.
"You might," Mr Crepsley said, "though I would not bet on it. Seba commanded my utmost respect, so I tried hard to copy what he did. You, on the other hand, seem to be determined to do the opposite of everything I say."
"I'm not that bad," I grinned, but there was some grain of truth in his words. I'd always been stubborn. I admired Mr Crepsley more than he knew, but hated the idea of looking like a pushover who did everything he was told. Sometimes I disobeyed the vampire just so he wouldn't think I was paying attention to what he said!
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
Darren ShanI mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?
Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
Darren ShanIf this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.
Darren ShanI 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.
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.
Darren ShanBetter 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 ShanWars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.
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