Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

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.