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"Do you remember the morning that you went into the chapel," she continued, "and you knelt on the bare marble floor, with your arms out in the form of the cross, and you told God you would do anything if only he would make you good?"
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"You said you would suffer martyrdom; torments unspeakable; it did not matter; if only you were to be someone who was good."

“How many times had Khayman seen such a gesture between immortals, the young one verifying for himself the texture and hardness of the elder's flesh. Hadn't some Christian saint slipped his hand in Christ's wounds because the sight of them had not been sufficient?”

"There is something obscene about this novel. It makes the lives of these beings seem attractive. You don't realize it at first; it's a nightmare and you can't get out of it. Then all of a sudden you're comfortable there. You want to remain. Even the tragedy of Claudia isn't really a deterrent."

“It was not to relive the old pain that she had returned, it was to know again, for a little while, the joy that had gone before.l

“When he sang, he said: ‘Allow me my significance! I am the symbol of evil; and if I am a true symbol, then I do good.’
Fascinating. Only a human being could think of a paradox like that.”

“Armand was patient. Armand understood. Armand brought him slowly through the darkened room.
‘I love you,’ Daniel said.
‘Are you certain?’ Armand answered.”

“Daniel loved the feel of the hard gleaming white hands moving over his naked flesh, rather like satin gloves. And the brown eyes that seemed to draw Daniel out of himself; ah, the delicious disorientation, the certainty that he was being carried downwards, out of all things physical, and finally the hands closing on his throat gently, and the teeth breaking through the skin.”