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“Isn't that how it always seems to work? One day you wake up, look around and wonder, Where am I? Whose life am I living, an how did I get here? Little pieces of the real you keep fitting away in someone else's wind until the you that you've always known has disappeared. It happens so gradually you don't even notice it at first.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“And there it is again -- that profound lesson about choices. Once we make them, we're tied to them, and consequences will follow us. But we also need to know that each day we get the chance to choose all over again. And believe me, there's hope in that”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..."
He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow.
"There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat