Maybelle Victor

The Dark Trick never brings love, you see, it brings only the silence… We used to say it was Satan’s will, that the master and the fledgling not seek comfort in each other.  It was Satan who had to be served, after all.

- Armand, The Vampire Lestat -

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If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music – which of course you play for yourself – you wouldn’t see darkness, Nicki.  You’d see an illumination that is all your own.  Somber, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns.

- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat -

I know how it is… you hate them.  Because of what you’ve endured and what they don’t know.  They haven’t the imagination to know what happened to you out there on the mountain.  It was the same the first time I bore a child… I was in agony for twelve hours, and I felt trapped in pain, knowing the only release was the birth of my own death.  When it was over, I had your brother Augustin in my arms, but I didn’t want anyone else near me.  And it wasn’t because I blamed them.  It was only that I’d suffered like that, hour after hour, that I’d gone into the circle of hell and come back out.  They hadn’t been in the circle of hell.  And I felt quiet all over.  In this common occurrence, this vulgar act of giving birth, I understood the meaning of utter loneliness.

- Gabrielle, The Vampire Lestat -