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“Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men’s treasures are not yours.”

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Celi’s Book Rec of Doom // Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

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The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. 

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

Comment: Fucking lush and sexy but still touchingly philosophical.