Vampire Lestat Quotes

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

  Anne Rice

  Lestat, Changes Over Time

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

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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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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

  Anne Rice

  Purpose, World, Bears

  Anne Rice (1996). “Servant of the Bones”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Lovers, Lestat

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

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• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Men, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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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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• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

  Anne Rice

  Mind, Trying, Demise

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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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• Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Guilt, Lestat

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

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• I stumble through a carnival of horrors

  Anne Rice

  Horror, Lestat, Carnivals

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.767, Ballantine Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Sorry, School

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Oct 28, 2011

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• I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

  Anne Rice

  Children, Home, Devil

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.758, Ballantine Books

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