Anne Rice

So, I finished Interview With the Vampire...it did and didn't end like I thought it would. In the end, it was a very sad tale about the fall of humanity and how meaningless life is without God. (Anne Rice has said in interviews that all her vampire novels were written while she was working through a lot of spiritual things...her 'search for Jesus'. And it's completely clear in her work!) She's on FaceBook so I'm hoping to chat with her at some point!!!

Anyway...there is one risque scene in the entire book, and it's meant to be horrifying and evil, and it's about a page or two in length...so, beware those of you who want to read it. There is that one scene.

Here are the rest of the quotes I adore from this book:

(Louis is the MC. He's having a conversation with Armand, who begins)

"Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?"

"Yes, I think it is," I said to him. "It's not logical, as you would make it sound. But it's that dark, that empty. And it is without consolation."

"But you're not being fair," he said with the first glimmer of expression in his voice. "Surely you attribute great degrees and variations to goodness. There is the goodness of the child which is innocence, and then...there is the goodness of good housewives. Are all these the same?"

"No. But equally and infinitely different from evil." I answered. (pg. 188)

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"That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil. That weakness, that refusal to compromise a fractured and stupid morality, that awful pride! For that, I let myself become the thing I am, when I knew it was wrong." (pg. 245)

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"I wanted love and goodness in this which is living death," I said. "It was impossible from the beginning, because you cannot have love and goodness when you do what you know to be evil, what you know to be wrong. You can only have the desperate confusion and longing and the chasing of phantom goodness in its human form." (pg. 269)