♛I wish I could recommend a brand of dye or shampoo but it’s always been gorgeous; remember, it’s partly why I was chosen by my maker.
I love having my hair fingercombed. Claudia used to braid flowers into it. Louis knew, early on, that the quickest way to disarm me was to find some excuse to stroke my hair.
Like mine. You ever gonna take me up on that invite? 😉
♛Ever?!It’s been five days, child! Have you considered that I am a Rock Superstar and might have a packed schedule trying to catch some facetime with the Pope while he’s in the US?
Think of my perspective: if I say yes to you, I have to say yes to everyone, and there are only so many hours in a night. Perhaps I’ll have to visit unannounced to take you up on your offer privately.
Further, watching a lion kill is nothing like watching a vampire kill. Lions do not, to my knowledge, have long drawn-out evenings with their victims, plying them with charm, drinking in their last hours, before spiriting them away to an alley to suck a gallon and a half of blood out of them. And then trying to find the best way to dispose of the mortal coil that’s left over. I need to make friends with a cannibal like Dr. Lecter to take care of that aspect…
I can’t even convey to you how twisted my victims can be. I detest sex offenders and yet, since by nature they work alone, they’re easier to draw out than drug dealers, who tend to have a whole entourage these days.
You don’t want to be around sex offenders. You’re too precious for that.
“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.
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