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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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Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

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Malady of mortality

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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...more

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And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

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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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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 wi...more

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Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

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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