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“In a way, [Armand] made me think of a child doll, with brilliant faintly red-brown glass eyes—a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him even more radiant than he was.”

The Armand cameo singlehandedly saved this book #blessed

Why are we getting job offers from the devil…

“Just before I’d left David, I’d asked, ‘What do you think is happening, I mean with this Stalker and this Ordinary Man?’ And David had answered without hesitation, ‘You’re imagining both of them, you punish yourself relentlessly; it’s the only way you know how to go on having fun.’”

What if you spent months stalking the perfect victim and falling in love with him and his life? And then what if one night you decide to kill (eat) him, and hours later his ghost haunts you and demands you protect his daughter? And also what if you witness the devil pulling his spirit into hell? And ALSO what if the next day the devil shows up in your hotel room? Because this just happened to my good friend Lestat.

“‘Armand envies you and spies on you far more than you might think.’

‘I hear Armand and I see him and I ignore him,’ I said.”