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41 " I had scarce time to grab a few important scrolls. Desperately I sought for Ovid, whom Pandora had so loved, and for the great tragedians of Greece. Avicus reached out his arms to help me. "
― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)
42 " Behold, the Queen of the Damned,” said his Maker twin as she presented to the others her long-lost sister. Thorne understood her. "
43 " What was I to do with this pain? How should I be rid of it? How long would it torment me right here in the city of Venice where I had chosen to seek comfort from mortals and give back to the world in secret payment my blessed and well-educated boys? "
44 " It was the spacious garden I loved to paint above all, with no painted frame to set it apart from our world with its dancing figures and bending laurels. It was the familiar garden. For I imagined I could escape into it with my mind. "
45 " Once again, I had failed to keep the secret. Even in Antioch long ago, I had failed to keep the secret. Would I always fail to keep the secret? Was this not my fate? "
46 " I saw him in human guise, dancing for humans, as if he were one of them. I smiled in my sleep, as I saw the modern world enfold him, unbelieving, amused, and dancing to his own rhythms. "
47 " Even to the young who look me, it is a difficult realization that they might become as pale and hard as I am. "
48 " It is plain that you move through the world by means of questions.”“Yes,” I said. “I do move through the world by means of questions and too often I’ve asked those questions in utter silence, or long centuries ago of people who gave me answers that were fragments which I had to piece together as though they were bits of old papyri. I hunger for knowledge. I hunger for what you mean to say to me. "
49 " From her long red locks she had taken one hair after another and spun it into thread, working with silent speed as he approached her. "
50 " He gets lost, or thirsty beyond the point where he can hunt on his own. I have to search for him. He was that way as a man before he was ever made a blood drinker. The blood didn’t change him except for a little while. And now he’s enslaved to these tiny worlds he creates. "
51 " One thing we can give each other is our history. "
52 " It had been bitter winter and the fire behind her seemed magical its brightness as he had stood in the snow watching her as she spun the thread as he had seen a hundred mortal women do. "
53 " The others were visible but she had slipped out of their vision, and slipping from their vision, she slipped from the vision of Thorne. "
54 " Don’t be afraid, child, not even for a moment. You’ll die now to live forever, as I take your blood and give it back to you. I won’t let you slip away. "
55 " Memory wouldn’t leave him alone. "
56 " Out of the darkness and bitter earth of the monastery, Amadeo came into the light. "
57 " I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake. "
58 " Weary of the Mind Gift and its random messages, he wanted to hear spoken words. "
59 " Be my child, Amadeo,” I whispered in this sweetness. “Be my child forever,” I said. “Have I ever loved anyone more than you? "
60 " As for Mael, I couldn’t help but note his quiet fury, and it struck me that he had for so long been the author of his own unhappiness, but now something was truly happening which might be a legitmate cause for his pain. "