She had a great talent for writing, even in her asides:
In the moment of surrender, I let go of all the theological or social questions which had kept me from [God] for countless years. I simply let them go. There was the sense, profound and wordless, that if He knew everything I did not have to know everything, and that, in seeking to know everything, I'd been, all of my life, missing the entire point. No social paradox, no historic disaster, no hideous record of injustice or misery should keep me from Him. No question of Scriptural integrity, no torment over the fate of this or that atheist or gay friend, no worry for those condemned and ostracized by my church or any other church should stand between me and Him. The reason? It was magnificently simple: He knew how or why everything happened; He knew the disposition of every single soul. He wasn't going to let anything happen by accident! Nobody was going to go to Hell by mistake.
She had a lot of philosophical struggles all throughout her life and a lot of health and family issues that were thrown on her. Hope she found peace.
I loved her Vampire series, and her first novel about Jesus was quite good... Haven't read the 2nd yet. Sorry she fell for the vaxscam, it seems, but pleased she evaded a nasty degrade in a care home that has been common lately. RIP
Died of complications from a (vaccine induced?) stroke.
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She had a great talent for writing, even in her asides:
She had a lot of philosophical struggles all throughout her life and a lot of health and family issues that were thrown on her. Hope she found peace.
Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine
Very soulful/contemplative quote - thank you for sharing it. Is it from one of her novels?
I don’t think so, I believe it was a statement/interview she gave after she converted back to Catholicism.
I loved her Vampire series, and her first novel about Jesus was quite good... Haven't read the 2nd yet. Sorry she fell for the vaxscam, it seems, but pleased she evaded a nasty degrade in a care home that has been common lately. RIP
"Born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien in 1941..."
Huh?
I've wondered if she was an inspiration for the novelists in the latest season of American Horror Story.
RIP Anne Rice.