corvinusgenesis:

ruledbyvillains:

9.11

tagging @i-want-my-iwtv in this for reasons 

“…when I was twelve, and the old parish priest, who had taught me some poetry by rote and to read an anthem or two in Latin, wanted to send me to school at the nearby monastery. 

My father said no, that I could learn all I needed in my own house…

My father was angry and reminded [my mother] that if this had happened before he went blind, his will would have prevailed surely. My brothers assured him that his youngest son wouldn’t be gone long. I’d come running home as soon as I was made to do something I didn’t want to do.

Well, I didn’t come running home. I loved the monastery school.

…Within a month I declared my vocation. I wanted to enter the order… frankly I thought my father would be glad to be rid of me. 

But three days later my brothers arrived to take me home with them. I cried and begged to stay, but there was nothing the Father Superior could do.” – The Vampire Lestat