Quotes About Influence

You were always his inspiration. He imitated you.

Jesse Reeves had been my student even more surely than Merrick ever became, and the vampires had swallowed Jesse whole and complete.

She has been my guiding lamp many a time

Perhaps he had worked a vague charm, and she was giving forth her deepest thoughts.

You accuse me of audacity! You're living and breathing now entirely because I want it.

I knew that I could do anything I wanted with him. There was no force between Heaven and Hell that could stop me. And I did not need a Satan to tell me that I could bring him over to me and educate his within the Blood.

It was all entirely understandable, but Aaron had a near magical effect upon people in such states, and he soon quieted her with his words, while Mary assisted when she could.

Una pequeña llama puede crear muchas otras llamas; una pequeña llama puede incendiar un mundo entero.

Elements we might call Asian or Chinese proliferate in these artifacts, and then there

though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And

And why call all this Satanic?" I asked. "Why not call it chaos? That is all it would be." "Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

Maybe because I'd read the chronicles so avidly, I felt Lestat was as close to me as I was to him.

What would Christ need have done to make me follow Him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with, And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

She wished she had had a mother. Well, she had had a mother, but she wished she'd had one who had taught her how to get along in the world better.

Women kept the world running, really. (There was a definite difference between 'running the world' and 'keeping it running.')

Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations.

He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Oh, a French braid," Greta said. "That's it. And then when she undid them, her hair would still be in ripples, little leftover squiggles, for hours and hours afterward." "Yes…" "Well," David said, "that's how families work, too. You think you're free of them, but you're never really free; the ripples are crimped in forever." Greta started laughing.

She'd been so intent on not turning into her mother, she had gone and turned into her father.

Just like his daddy, but his daddy wants Red to be different from him. Isn't that always how it is?

It's just free speech, that's all we've got. We can say whatever we like, then the government goes and does exactly what it pleases. You call that democracy? It's like we're on a ship, headed someplace terrible, and somebody else is steering and the passengers can't jump off.

the past is never dead. It's not even past.