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“And when you make others-and you will, out of loneliness, make others —make and keep them as human as you can. Keep them close to you as members of a family, not as members of a coven, and understand the age you live in, the decades you pass through.… Understand what it means to feel the passage of time!"

"Yes, and feel all the pain of seeing things die..." All the things Armand advised against.

“It seemed the walls had captured life in these delicate and tenderly painted figures, it seemed that the magic attempted again and again by the ancient religious artists had its tiny glowing kernel of power. I could hear whispers of life where there were no whispers. I could feel the great continuity of history even if there was no one who was aware.”

“You’ve lost too much that was precious to you. You saw and learned a great deal very fast.”

"You sense my loneliness," I answered, "my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer”

“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise- there is no hope”