



Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn.
“When we were really firing on all cylinders and were together then it really felt like no one could touch us, and that nothing else mattered. As much as I try to deflect it, play it down and be English about it, there was a very powerful romance and beauty to our friendship. At the beginning it was pure and uncomplicated; there was a chemistry. Together we were a comple unit, in each other’s company quite different from how we were with other people. […] the fact is that if that dynamic between us hadn’t existed none of this would have happened, I wouldn’t be lamenting what I lost - what we both lost - I wouldn’t be writing it all down. When we are together and we can forget about bullshit, we become two old souls, kindered spirits in seclusion. “
Carl Barât on his relation with Peter Doherty, Threepenny Memoir, 2010
“Always I’d felt that I couldn’t be a good human being and fight them. To be good meant to be defeated by them. Unless of course I found a more interesting idea of goodness.”
Lestat de Lioncourt
The Vampire Lestat
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”— Oscar Wilde (via flame)
“ ‘My coffin,’ I said, ‘put me in my coffin!’ When had I said those words before. ‘Put me in my coffin!’ And Louis had not done it, and Claudia had not done it. In came the knife.’ ”
- Lestat
having déjà vu, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
interview with the vampire
“he smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled.”