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

by Anne Rice

I did not realize at the time that these slaves would be the first, and possibly the only ones, to ever suspect that Lestat and I were not ordinary creatures. I failed to realize that their experience with the supernatural was far greater than that of white men.

use that power to make your face a mask and think as you gaze on them as on anyone:

beware. Take that word as if it were an amulet I’d given you to wear about your neck.

‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms.’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

‘I don’t understand my own feelings. Perhaps they are clearer to you than they are to me.…’ “ ‘You don’t begin to know what a mystery you are!’ he said.