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“I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.”
“I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.”
“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”
“What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wintry glow to my faint smile at those who asked ...”
“For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?”
“You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.”
“as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing...”
“All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."He unzipped his fly and pulled down the elastic front of his shorts. Something that looked like a dea...”
“We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us wo...”
“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
“And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from y...”
“It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.”
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the c...”
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
“I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.”
“You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my...”
“We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.”
