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21 " Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness. "
― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)
22 " I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give. "
23 " memory is desperate to leave us. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools. "
24 " Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals. "
25 " And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind. "
26 " Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands. "
27 " must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on. "
28 " Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts. "
29 " I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about. "
30 " An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. "
31 " Ah forever!" I said. "I have such a love of that word, forever.""Yes, it is a timeless word," he said, raising his mossy eyebrows as he looked at me. "Time is ours, but forever belongs to God, don't you think? "
32 " Surely time can take away such love. What a curse if it can’t.” “It can’t.” I said. "
33 " Never make a blood drinker of a greater age, said Eudoxia. For a greater mortal age can only lead to misery later on from habits learned in mortal life. "
34 " Also, I thought, I can always delay the murder. . . . I can let my mind have this company it craves and I can always kill him later on. But I'm sure you know such reasoning is false, because once we grow to love a person, we are not likely to want that person's death. "
35 " We are witnesses with both too much and too little feeling. "
36 " And not having had any true gods of my own, I speak of all gods as if they were poetry. "
37 " He could not even see the images which I was seeing, so broken was his heart. "
38 " Without Satan, how could there have been the Christ? "
39 " Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. "
40 " I can write it myself,” I said, “if only you give me the parchment and the pen. I need for you to send it, and establish this place for the receipt of an answer to it. "