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“I felt like someone different from myself when I killed the wolves. And now I don’t know who is here with you- your son Lestat, or the other man, the killer.”
She was quiet for a long time.
“No,” she said finally. “It was you who killed the wolves. You’re the hunter, the warrior. You’re stronger than anyone else here, that’s your tragedy.”

– The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice