“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”
― The Queen of the Damned
― The Queen of the Damned
“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
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“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”
― The Queen of the Damned
― The Queen of the Damned
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