interview with the vampire by anne rice
parts iii & iv
this is my world. i must have it as i like.
why do you look away, why don't you look at me?
did you think i'd be your daughter forever?
need i tell you what fate may have in store for you?
your beauty is a gift to us.
you've come from so far, you've travelled for so long.
do you believe that satan made this world around you?
what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life.
nothing's changed; it's all the same.
why don't you come up with us?
i must warn you. answer no questions.
what can be imagined can be done.
your voice, i know that accent; speak again.
tell us about the old days.
you're welcome tomorrow night, and the night after.
do you think for a moment i don't acknowledge my own guilt?
do you think i would leave you in danger?
you feel too much, you think too much.
can't you read my thoughts as if they were words?
don't look away from me! i am sick at heart of your looking away, with your suffering.
your evil is that you cannot be evil, and i suffer for it.
you haven't tears enough for what you've done to me.
i will not live with this hatred any longer!
i love you still, that's the torment of it.
your power over me is broken.
if i could only show you my power...
what has died in this room tonight is the last vestige in me of what was human.
i want you. i want you more than anything in the world.
i don't understand my own feelings.
you don't begin to know what a mystery you are!
i don't think i've been fortunate in feeling love for many people or many things.
i am evil with infinite gradations and without guilt.
do you see how ruthless i am in love?
i'm at odds with everything and always have been!
your fall from faith and grace has been the fall of a century.
i haven't the courage to die.
you can be scarred, yes; but you are resilient.
i only hope that when you have need of me, you can find me.
i warn you, don't come near me.
i see you in the reflection of myself.
don't try to speak... it's all right.
i've dreamed of your coming.
you've come home again to me, haven't you?
how can you be as you are? how can you stand it?
she never loved you, you know.