"All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond my reach! It is as if I'm not here, beside you. And, not being here with you, I have the dreadful feeling that I don't exist at all."
"Louis, my companion, dried up of his own free will, rather like a beautiful rose skilfully dehydrated in sand so that it retains its proportions, nay, even its fragrance and even its tint. For all the blood he drank, he himself became dry, heartless, a stranger to himself and to me. Understanding all too well the limits of my warped spirit, he forgot me long before he dismissed me."
"You showed me the only thing that I could really hope to become, what depth of evil, what degree of coldness I would have to attain to end my pain. And I accepted that. And so that passion, that love you saw in me, was extinguished. And you see now simply a mirror of yourself."
'Yes,' I said softly to him, 'that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.'
ā¢ Interview with the Vampire (1976)/ The Vampire Armand (1998)/ My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems;"One Last Poem for Richard,"/ The Buddha of Suburbia/Norwegian Wood/"Gold" by Crywolf/A Little Life/A Field, Any Field/Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaĆÆs Nin (1932-1934)
