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The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

The power of Satan will blast you into hell,' the boy bellowed, gathering his remaining strength. 'You keep saying that!' I said. 'And it keeps not happening, as we can all see!

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.

Doll, doll,' I called her. That's what she was. A magic doll. Laughter and infinite intellect and then the round-cheeked face, the bud mouth.

It's only mercy I ask, that I go now to find hell, if there is a hell, or sweet oblivion which surely I do not deserve. If there is a Prince of Darkness, then I shall set eyes upon him at last. I shall spit in his face.

The belief in a special destiny is one of the most rampant and harmful delusions on earth.

Ah, so much to ponder. But not now. Now was the time for the conjugal blessing of this new abode.

You are the damnedest creature!" he whispered.

You don't see the evidence of youth in me; it is something so far afield of the promises of youth that I've only begun to understand its agonies.

Explain to me, that is, if there is time left before all the light I shall ever know winks out on me, and the Earth devours that incarnate jewel you found wanting.

Once again, he smiled at me so knowingly, with such a quiet air of triumph.

Mona wasn't innocent, except in the most serious sense of the word. That is, she didn't think she was bad, and she didn't mean to do bad. She was just sort of a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ pagan

I played the teacher with great earnestness and generosity, and something of pure self-indulgence. Was it for Lestat or me that I wanted him to know everything? I don't know. But those were splendid hours for me, I know that much.

I thought dreamily of that supper when he had come upon me so stealthily and stared at me with such innocent and inquisitive eyes.

Stop dreaming of those chains in which she once bound Lestat unless you truly wish for her to bind you in them.

All the world was gone in curls of weightless sound and light.

The cafe au lait was strong and delicious. Five years among the Undead can't kill the memory. Nothing ever will.

Your words flow over me like warm water. They bring me comfort. I hunger for your images. I hunger for all you might say.

Mael wore the astonished expression of an innocent.

Too many times, religion mothers crimes and wickedness.

All the little ghosts had fled. The convent was mine. Memnoch's servant; Memnoch's prince. I was never alone in my person.

If you come to bring a swift justice to me for my disobedience, assure me please that you will do your utmost to destroy a spirit which has been my companion since I was a child. This creature, a duplicate of me who has grown with me since before I can remember, now poses a danger to humans as well as myself.

I was too pale of soul, too numbed, to used to seeing all things as figments in a series of unconnected dreams.