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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159436.Pandora?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172279207m/159436.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159436.Pandora?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Pandora</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice">Anne Rice</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/470201?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/><b>Favorite Quotes</b> <br/> <br/>What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover… <br/> <br/>I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste. <br/> <br/>And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world. <br/> <br/>Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You. <br/> <br/>It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course. <br/> <br/>You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot. <br/> <br/>The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/35417?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>