You are someone worth loving

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.