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“And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from y...”
“The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.”
“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
“Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.”
“It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.”
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, dont you think? The young are eternally desperate, he said frankly. And books, they offer hope that a whole universe might open up from between the cover...”
“Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!”
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
“Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.”
“...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know....”
“I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.”
“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”
“You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my...”
“We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.”
“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.”
“After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.”
“Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.”
“Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.”
“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 th...”
“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 mor...”
