Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal...
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this...
What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wintry glow to my faint smile at those who asked it...
as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing le...
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
I never lie, I said offhand. At least not to those I don't love.
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Malady of mortality
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
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