The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

by Anne Rice

How the blood gave her courage, how it gave her a momentary belief in the sheer rightness of the universe—fruits of a ghastly, unforgivable act.

If the mind can find no meaning, then the senses give it. Live for this, wretched being that you are.

How normal he looked, if beauty is ever normal.

the roar of the engines was a huge silence, the whale breathing, slicing through the sea.

It is the very simplicity and the elegance which make it so wrong!”

“History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it’s the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has.”

It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory; that had been my room in there; my room.