The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

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.

… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

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 think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.