Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

by Anne Rice

but we are conscious death! That would make you a bride. Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?” He all but kissed her face, the brilliant stain of her tears. “Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.”

of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.”