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“My child, if after this life I am permitted to see you again, if pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure: if remorse may expiate guilt, I shall be guiltless.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation

“I determined to go alone [...]. But it would not do: I rated my fortitude too high, or my love too low.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation

“His feelings seemed better fitted for a spirit whose habitation is the earthquake and the volcano than for one confined to a mortal body and human lineaments.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation

“He seemed to cherish a mild grief and softer emotions although sad as a relief from despair - He contrived in many ways to nurse his melancholy as an antidote to wilder passions.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation

“My father who art in hell, Lestat be your name.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“This was the thought that haunted me: I was forever forming plans how i might hereafter contrive to escape the tortures that were prepared for me when I should mix in society, and to find that solitude which alone could suit one whom an untold grief separated from her fellow creatures.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation

“I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I’m not with him; but then when I see him again I’m overcome.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“I don’t really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero—that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“He had grieved for me, I’ll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels. Well, none of that trash works with me.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“I'd fashioned him of human flesh and blood to be my preternatural tormentor, had I not?”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“Sometimes you frighten me so badly I hurl sticks and stones at you. It's foolish. I'm glad to see you, though I dread admitting it. I shiver at the thought that you might have really brought an end to yourself in the desert! I can't bear the thought of existence without you! You infuriate me! Why don't you laugh at me? You've done it before.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“I love you," he said softly.
I was amazed.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“I looked at Armand , at his large brown eyes in that taut, timeless face, watching me again like a painting; and I felt the slow shifting of the physical world I'd felt in the painted ballroom, the pull of my old delirium, the wakening of a need so terrible that the very promise of its fulfillment contained the unbearable possibility of disappointment. And yet there was the question, the awful, ancient, hounding question of evil.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Pendant l'enfance, il m'appelle wlidi, "mon petit fils".
Pourtant, il doit m'appeler benti, ma fille.
Il dit souvent: "Tu n'es pas ma fille."
Pour me rassurer, je comprends que je suis son fils.”
― Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

“What would Christ need have done to make me follow Him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with, And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“I can't remember anything bad between us," I said.
"You will," he responded. "And so will I. But what does it matter that we remember?”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“The human heart is my school.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Perhaps the horror of my own life was that, no matter what I did or where I went, I always understood.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Yet all pleasure to me was suspect. I was dazzled when I could not give in, and overcome when I did surrender,”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand