“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“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.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost."
So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."
An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
― The Vampire Lestat
So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."
An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
― The Vampire Lestat
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“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 -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
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