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“‘And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding; we merely become more nearly ourselves.’”

“‘Is it alright, the way I am now?’ he’d asked Armand. ‘Are you happy?’

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‘I love it well enough the way you turned out,’ he had whispered with a sudden irrepressible smile, the warmth still there. ‘You’re my firstborn,’ he’d said.“

“Daniel stared hard at the creature before him, this thing that looked human but was not. […] And yet he loved this thing. […] He loved it not because it looked like a thoughtful young man, but because it was ghastly and awful and loathsome, and beautiful all at the same time. He loved it the way people love evil, because it thrills them to the core of their souls.”

Prologue narrated by Lestat into proem narrated by Marius into a story told thru vignettes (?) Anne we’re gonna get you that Oscarrr