And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from you, to think on it. So think about the pain. This pain after all has its limits. You can chart its passage through your body. It has a beginning, middle, end. Imagine if it had a color. The first cut of the lash is what, red? Red, spreading into a brilliant yellow. And this one again, red, red, no yellow, and then white, white, white, white. . .Why have you incarcerated yourself in this palazzo of torture chambers, why do you not leave this place? Because you are a monster and this is a school for monsters, and if you leave here, then you will be completely, completely alone! Alone with this! Don't weep in front of these strangers. Swallow it down. Don't weep in front of these strangers! Cry to heaven, cry to heaven, cry to heaven.
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ANNE RICE I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th... ANNE RICE I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. ANNE RICE Let the flesh instruct the mind. ANNE RICE I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred ... ANNE RICE Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. ANNE RICE Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I ha... ANNE RICE Every moment must be first known and then savored. ANNE RICE As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds... ANNE RICE How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. ANNE RICE Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your... ANNE RICE And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt. ANNE RICE And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die ... ANNE RICE It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly... ANNE RICE The only power that exists is inside ourselves. ANNE RICE Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that consci... ANNE RICE The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. ANNE RICE Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all... ANNE RICE I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted b... ANNE RICE What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, an... ANNE RICE The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below ... ANNE RICE Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time. ANNE RICE With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I r... ANNE RICE I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries ... ANNE RICE Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue R... ANNE RICE I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her... ANNE RICE All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I... ANNE RICE The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which s... ANNE RICE