Francesca

“All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the
recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You have to suffer through this emptiness...and find what impels you to continue.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“You're the mad one,' I said. 'If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music - which of course you play for yourself - you wouldn't see darkness, Nicki. You'd see an illumination that is all your own. Sombre, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat