Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned (1988)

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I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.

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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

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Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

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For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

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I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil — religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

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The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.

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So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

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Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.

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Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

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It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

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I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

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Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

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