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Govinda had become a monk. But he, Siddhartha, where did he belong? Whose life would he share? Whose language would he speak?

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth.

good so far but not much has happened, just Akasha waking up. Taking a break from the book for now tho to read something else

“choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices. In other words, choose them because you love them.'
"I understand," I said. "Make them in love."
"Exactly, make them in love. And make certain they have had some lifetime before you make them; and never never make one as young as Armand. That is the worst crime

Marius’s storyyyy!! also akasha finally introduced?? Gabriella highkey disgusting and grooming Lestat, hard to read and accept. I liked her philosophy at first in being a vampire but her wanting to be completely evil? its an interesting convo piece, but you can’t be serious. Also, my poor Nicki, such a sad situation

these kids are crazyyy

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“Armand kept two secrets to himself” “no matter how great his loneliness, he never worked the Dark Trick himself. He wouldn't give that to Satan, no Child of Darkness made by him: the other secret, was simply the extent of his ever deepening despair.”
That he craved nothing, cherished nothing, believed nothing. Existed from moment to moment in a void broken once every night of his eternal life by the kill”

“we were to be as the Black Death itself, a vexation without explanation, to cause man to doubt the mercy and intervention of God.”

Never mind, Armand was manipulating him so he could steal his power. and now Lestat is trying to kill him

“Yet never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall.

Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this.”
- Lestat about Armand

I will riot if this mesmerizing scene is not in the third season of IWTV.

“I don’t have to read your mind,” she said, “to know what’s in your heart.”
- Gabrielle to Lestat

that was Lestat describing Armand

“Grotesque he seemed, this filthy waif of the netherworld, and yet his beauty held sway.”

“You will come to understand all things in love when you are a vicious and hateful thing. This is your immortality, child.”

“God, that our immortal bodies could be such varied prisons for us, that our immortal faces should be such masks for our true souls.”

“I could speak until the end of the world, and I could never tell you what you have destroyed here.”

“I tell you, you walk this earth as all evil things do, by the will of God, to make mortals suffer for his Divine Glory. And by the will of God you can be destroyed if you blaspheme, and thrown in the vats of hell now, for you are damned souls, and your immortality is given you only at the price of suffering and torment."

brooo, Armand in the show totally lied about his interaction with Lestat. also thsi Catacomb sounds terrifying. I’m worried for what they’ve done to Nicki

I fucking love this book. Lestat’s a queer little freak

i wish i could’ve been there with my grandmas who have passed. i wish i was old enough then to understand and to have conversations full of wisdom with them. but i understand there are many people in my life now who are fully capable and i should make more of an effort to reach out to them

a gazelle

“love each other or perish” - poet auden

“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”

“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let if come in.”

“Love is the only rational act.”