The Tale of the Body Thief Quotes

“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

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