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Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8) QUOTES

Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8) QUOTES

1 " ….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death? "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

2 " I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

3 " Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

4 " But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

5 " I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

6 " The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

7 " I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house to me if it did not possess a library? "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

8 " Ah, such complexity, such inexplicable combinations, such strange matter, and yet very human face so compelling, every hand so exquisitely wrought. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

9 " No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

10 " The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

11 " Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

12 " Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

13 " Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

14 " Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

15 " There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

16 " Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

17 " And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

18 " I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

19 " You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming only to sack my heart of all its riches. What am I to do? We argued, yes, you and I, but it was with loving respect, was it not? I cannot endure without you. Please come to me, from wherever you are. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

20 " Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him? If my tears spilled now, he would see them. If I trembled now, he would know. "

― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)