Lestat Quotes

• None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

  Anne Rice

  Vampire Lestat, Changes Over Time

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Cards, Helping

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

  Anne Rice

  Halloween, Waiting, Littles

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.911, Ballantine Books

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• I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

  Anne Rice

  Black, Vampire, Capes

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• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  Anne Rice

  Doors, Answers, Literature

  "The Vampire Lestat". Book by Anne Rice, 1985.

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• I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Missing, Vampire

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• We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Giving, Predator

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Guilt, Merciful

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Fall, Might

  Anne Rice (2002). “Blackwood Farm”, Knopf

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Fire, Light, Vampire

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.410, Ballantine Books

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• Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Air, Soul, Vampire

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• One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

  Anne Rice

  Running, Hate, Jealous

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.769, Ballantine Books

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• I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

  Anne Rice

  Hate, Love You, Hatred

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.313, Ballantine Books

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• His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Blood, Vampire

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• Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

  Anne Rice

  Views, Evil, Vampire

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• The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Ghouls, Years

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• I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

  Anne Rice

  Hunting, New Orleans, Vampire

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.415, Ballantine Books

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• Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

  Anne Rice

  Halloween, Might, Hell

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1053, Ballantine Books

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• Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

  Anne Rice

  Light, Giving, Vampire

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. November 11, 1994.

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• Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

  Anne Rice

  Girl, Naughty, Vampire

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Would Be, Unbearable

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Lovers, Said

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

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• A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

  Anne Rice

  Glasses, Singers, Way

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1226, Ballantine Books

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• I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Hurt, Eye

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1084, Ballantine Books

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• Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

  Anne Rice

  Forever, Drink, Live Forever

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