The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

by Anne Rice

He was trying to buy her body, her suffering, the thing growing inside her.

Now that is always poignant and never changes huh?

The South American girls always had it, playing that awful “La Cucaracha,” and doing those Spanish dances.

This isn’t the first side eye maybe racist thing said here but if they are South American they aren’t Spanish dances. We aren’t Spanish we are Latin.

give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

Word

“Ah, but you see,” said the tall white-haired Ryan, as if he’d read her mind, “in New Orleans, we never really leave them out.”

I was marked for it myself until I rebelled.”

But you are still a witch, let’s be real Carlotta, you said you use their schemes to win their games. You’re a witch.

Sitting up in bed with her arms wrapped around her knees, she had wondered if this wasn’t somehow worse for a woman than a man, because a woman could find the smallest things about a man violently erotic, such as the way his curly hair was mashed down now on his forehead, or the way it curled on the back of his neck. Weren’t men a little more direct about things? Did they go mad over a woman’s ankle? Seems Dostoyevski said they did. But she had doubted it.

Truer words were never spoken

The thing has waited for thirteen witches, from the time of Suzanne to the present, and you are the thirteenth. Count them. Suzanne, Deborah, and Charlotte; Jeanne Louise, Angélique, and Marie Claudette; followed in Louisiana by Marguerite, Katherine, and Mary Beth. Then come Stella, Antha, Deirdre. And finally you, Rowan! The thirteenth is simply the strongest, Rowan, the one who can be the doorway for this thing to come through.

“The future is a fabric of interlacing possibilities,” he said. “Some of which gradually become probabilities, and a few of which become inevitabilities, but there are surprises sewn into the warp and the woof, which can tear it apart.”

“No, but I am certainly definable, and when I am defined by mortals, then I shall be able to define myself. I learn all things from you which have to do with such understanding.”

Just like a dude to speak in circles and avoid answering the question

“The newly emerging intelligences of man, locked in matter, nevertheless perceived us, and thereby caused us to perceive ourselves. Again, this is a sophisticated sentence and therefore partially inaccurate. For millennia, these human spiritual intelligences developed; they grew stronger and stronger; they developed telepathic powers; they sensed our existence; they named us and talked to us and seduced us; if we took notice we were changed; we thought of ourselves.” “So you learned self-consciousness from us.” “All things from you. Self-consciousness, desire, ambition. You are dangerous teachers. And we are discontent.”

Brilliant really

“Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies. “Things could have gone differently. Rowan could have refused to help that thing.