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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. (Anne Rice)
I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it. View quote
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What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. View quote
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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. View quote
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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. View quote
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Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer. View quote
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I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. View quote
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Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth. View quote
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But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one. View quote
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. View quote
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You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written - behind your silence and your suffering. (Anne Rice)
Tell me how bad I am... it makes me feel so good. View quote
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Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt. View quote
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I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not. View quote
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I assume I don't need an introduction. View quote
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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent? View quote
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No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. View quote
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Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good! View quote
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. View quote
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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death. View quote
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What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth. (Anne Rice)
Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. View quote
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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. View quote
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Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. View quote
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning... rather than one great dull answer to all our questions. View quote
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