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“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
“We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.”
“It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.”
“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
“If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it”
“You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.”
“I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.”
“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness o...”
“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
“One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority...”
“Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.”
“As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was ...”
“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 ...”
“I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I...”
“You have a light in you thats almost blinding. But in me theres only darkness. Sometimes I think its like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. ...”
“Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.”
“I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.”
“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 touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power ...”
“And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, morta...”
“Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men w...”
“I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face of the Prince of Darkness, whoever he might be!On the contrary, if I was a damned thing, t...”
