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

by Anne Rice

Let the flesh instruct the mind.’

you die when you kill, as if you feel that you deserve to die, and you stint on nothing.

‘Why does that make you as evil as any vampire? Aren’t there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?’

I’m not the spirit of any age. I’m at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!’ It was too painful, too perfectly true.

as soon as our eyes met I wished the world were not one black empty ruin of ashes and death. I wished it were fresh and beautiful, and that we were both living and had love to give each other.