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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.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
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.
... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.
It was an age of tragic mistakes.
Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren -- if you accept it, it has no power over you.
Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.
But what Desmond didn't tell you is -- by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.
You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?
What sort of a world is it where evil is born of an act of goodness? -Vancha March
Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. "Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there -- it sounds like great fun.

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