"I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But the...
Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.
~ Anne Rice ~
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"Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that...
"Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?
"There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mys...
"Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.
"Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
"I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do...
"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.
"Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
"I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed....
"What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wi...
"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
"I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answe...
"as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words dr...