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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 the...more

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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that...more

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I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It ...more

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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

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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.

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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 answe...more

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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 ov...more

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Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?...more

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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

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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 ...more

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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.

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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

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Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was no wonder, then, that he apprecia...more