A monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.

Ocean Vuong, from “A Letter To My Mother That She Will Never Read”, published in The New Yorker (via soracities)

Amadeo: Just bring the master to me.
Riccardo: Well, he locked himself in the bedroom and I doubt he’ll want to speak with anyone.
Amadeo: Just tell him I said something.
Riccardo: Said what?
Amadeo: Anything factually inaccurate.
*two minutes later*
Marius to Amadeo: ‘The sky is blue because it’s reflecting the color of the ocean’?!

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Interview With The Vampire-ing with @aegiskitty as Lestat. Practicing my Louis pout.