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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

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But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”“Wha...more

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Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it an...more

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Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.