Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)
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Fools might have thought her fatalistic. But it wasn’t that. It was the ability to think ahead, and thereby banish panic utterly. Some mortals must know this right before they die. When the game’s up, and everyone has said farewell. She looked at everything from that fatal, tragic, unerring perspective.
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there’s nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don’t know the trick. It’s like whistling or singing.
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He laughed outright, though it was very low, and he shook his head, flashing a glance on David that implied they knew each other very well, maybe too well. I didn’t like it that they knew each other at all. David was my David, and Armand was my Armand.
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“Yes, Matter and energy, which are interchangeable as you know, yes, He created them, and I suspect that the key to Him lies within the word ‘energy,’ that if human anatomy ever reaches the point where angels and God can be satisfactorily explained in human language, energy will be the key.”
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“Self-consciousness, and the awareness of one’s own death—this had created a sense of distinct individuality in humans, and this individuality feared death; feared annihilation! Saw it, knew what it was, saw it happening. And prayed for a God that He would not let such a thing have no meaning in the world.
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In the name of the cross, more injustice has been perpetrated than for any other single cause or emblem or philosophy or creed on Earth.