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‘the vampire Lestat was extraordinary. He was no more human to me than a biblical angel.’

‘I had a most high regard for the life of others’

‘when he’d finished speaking, no other decision was possible for me’

‘As he talked to me and told me of what I might become, (…)I saw my life as if I stood apart from it, (…) the constant fleeing from one petty annoyance after another, (…)none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existence. I saw my real gods... the gods of most men.
Food, drink, and security in conformity. Cinders.'

Elizabeth’s chapters are soooo boring, and completely stilt the story.

‘Follow me because you want to.’

oh my god

*spoiler*

‘If someone’s going to do it, I want it to be you.’

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‘James made a sound and went pliant as if that same gold ran like sweet need through his veins.’

*spoiler*

‘He felt it when James walked into a room, felt it even when James was depleted, a guttering flame, and Will wanted to curl around him, and nurse that flame into blazing fire.’

“You know almost nothing about yourself. The stewards have not taught you to take advantage of what you are.”

“But what is death,” said Kettering,”to one who can return?”

‘said James, who looked like a golden temptation to sin.’

‘You were a window into the life we could have had.’