Iโd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but sheโd surpassed all the language I had for it.
Anne RiceGod, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?
Anne RiceAnd then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.
Anne Rice