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‘The very ceiling writhed with skeletons and mouldering dead, with demons and the instruments of pain, as if this were the cathedral of death itself.’

‘all I saw was his radiant face, as I had never seen Lestat’s face’

‘as if his calm were drawing off my trepidation, my care, like the sea drawing something into itself from the land. I cannot exaggerate this quality in him.’

“Unconscious death…the fate of all mortals.”

“but we are conscious death! That would make you a bride. Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?”

‘Théâtre des Vampires’
‘Bring the petite beauty with you. You are most welcome. Armand.’

‘I was helpless. She was helpless But she was stronger than I.’

‘Uselessness to herod she could not abide this anger, if she could not somehow grasp the limits of which she seemed so angrily, bitterly aware.’

‘comforted by the height of the tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing the alleyway under the indifferent stars like a seam.’

‘New Orleans seemed at all times like a dream in the imagination of her striving populace’