Caitlin

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner”
― Anne Rice

“HE WAS FOURTEEN
it was years ago and Sad’s
name wasn’t Sad yet. First
comet. G had just
stumbled off a bus they
looked at one another and
that lasted until G was
almost twenty but he.
Well. Being a loyal soul
himself. Sad’s need to
make friends everywhere.
Sex friends club friends
gym friends dope friends
shopping friends
breakdown friends a
common enough problem.
Sad didn’t see a problem.
One day he looked around
and G was gone.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Wife of Brain

don't say you weren't
expecting a volcano those
red wings
that not even bad love can tame
must signify something's
somewhere
about to go up in flame or
(as Proust says) be
eternalized in pleasure
like the men
in a Pompeian house of ill
fate yet fame
is not ill
for all”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>