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

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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

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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words dr...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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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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And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, o...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?