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The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment.

What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

That's the glory of it; thousands of years have passed and yet you can follow Him so close!

I'll tell you, but you'll never understand. You're on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is to be alive.

Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre,

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

I dream the dreams of the young,' he said. 'And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don't you think?

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written - behind your silence and your suffering.

I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

But joy, the joy you've known, the love you've known, that is what matters, and we, the conscious ones, the ones who can grieve, only we can know joy.

For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that's all. But life is more important than death.

I broke with my religion in college.

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do

Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul.

The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.

But what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Evil is just a point of view

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Do you think that angels are detached?" asked

Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!

Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more.

we do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

The world devours the world to make the world

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

Remember, Rose, whatever you've suffered, no matter how bad it's been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.

If money can't buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?

There would be no twilight, I realized that. Ah, very sad indeed. But as a vampire I often beheld the twilight. So why should I complain?

We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

And we do breathe. We breathe and we taste and we smell and we feel and we thirst.

An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

If you don't see something that you like to read, but cannot find it. Write it and make it exist.

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

Davis was a beautiful black vampire, and Killer had loved him.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

Delicious it was, the hatred between us, or so I thought. Such unfamiliar excitement, to have him there to ridicule and despise.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.

As she pulled away the shirt and jacket like so much wrapping paper on a gift.

There was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here ... in my arms.

Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.

An intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain ... We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy.

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

You have to suffer through this emptiness ... and find what impels you to continue.

We are witnesses with both too much and too little feeling.

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

Happy Halloween, vampire boys and girls.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

I didn't tell her what it had been like, those few days. But I think she knew. Something magical had been lost utterly.

Stella seems the most carefree, the most flamboyant, the most daring, and the only Mayfair Witch ever bent entirely upon having fun.

He looked away as if he were again disengaging himself from the present.

Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.

I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

memory is desperate to leave us. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools.

You're my insatiable blood thief and soul smasher.

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?

We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

In a real way, eternity is merely the living of one human lifetime after another.

There is no normal life. There is only life.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

The greatest creative power you have on earth ... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle.