“And so he ran after me all the way back to the hotel, all the way across the rooftops, where I hoped to lose him, until I leaped in the window of the parlor and turned in rage and slammed the window shut. He hit it, arms outstretched, like a bird who seeks to fly through glass, and shook the frame." – Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
#Another small crime that this wasn’t in the movie.
My confession, since I began reading the VC I am somehow not afraid of the dark anymore and I found out that I can deal with death better now.
♛I told Gabrielle, “We are the things that others fear, Remember that.” It’s an empowering concept.
I always had a high tolerance for what others consider distasteful, but it definitely escalated after I was turned. I threw up my own blood and then found myself relishing the taste of it, licking it off the stone floor near a pile of dead bodies that resembled me! I scooped up a rat and studied its paws in front of retail people!
I’m glad to have shed light on things that frighten(ed) you. Glad to have led you away from fear of the dark, and of death. Not everything in the darkness wants to be there. The things in the dark, they might yearn for the light. They might not be trying to be deliberately harmful to those who wander into their territory. Things that kill may not always do it out of malice. It’s a Savage Garden. Bad things happen that are inexplicable. It’s possible to live in fear, but isn’t living for life itself better?
Being wary is good, but if fear hold you back, it’s freeing to let the unnecessary fears go. Fears that aren’t constructive to living.
ooc; AR has a way of choosing subjects that are difficult and unpacking them, taking the reader along, guiding us through it. Originally it was to work out her own fears, probably, and that’s why the first few novels were so strong.
♛Ye gods, you really don’t want to write your essay! There’s nothing you could offer me to do it for you, even “the sex.” I wouldn’t want to deprive you of the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel when you’re done with it. Which really, to some people, is better than sexual gratification.
(FYI there are plenty of naked horny bodies shoved at me without the essay requirement.)(I mean I already wrote 9 novels and another is in the works, I’ve paid my essay payments! My “essays” are what got me so much damn attention, don’t you want to hone your own skills and be in as much demand as I am?!)
Lestat’s paradox is that he knows he’s evil, but he can fool people into believing he’s not. And he’s very aware of that. And even when he tries to show people how bad he is they generally love it.
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