Anne Rice

Joseph Lieaneaus Phillips

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

Sasha Mann

Alice

You ask me about feeling and detachment. One of its aspects—detachment with feeling, I should say—is that you can think of two things at the same time. You can think that you are not safe and may die, and you can think of something very abstract and remote

As I have told you, I loved her strength and honesty, the greatness of her soul. And I did not feel passion for her as you would feel it. But I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life.

I’d fallen helpless back against the pillar, helpless as much from the fire and the blow as from the knowledge that Babette meant to destroy me, as from the knowledge that I did not know what I was.

I hedged against the great moral question of whether or not by my very nature I was damned.

And in your romance with mortal life, you’re dead to your vampire nature!

Unconscious death…the fate of all mortals.

I saw him more kindly than before. Lost like the rest of us. Not the jealous protector of any knowledge he was afraid to share. He knew nothing. There was nothing to know.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.…

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