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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of ja...more

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...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what ...more

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For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

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Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding...more

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I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk a...more

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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't he...more

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What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for ...more

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The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin...more

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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 ...more

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Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

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Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of ch...more

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After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

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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.

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

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Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?