tell your children not to do what I have done.

And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power, I was somehow kin to every mortal man. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul. 

--Excerpt from The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice, 1986

♥ XOXO, LBP