Lestat Lioncourt Quotes

#1. I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.
'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.

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#2. You have to suffer through this emptiness ... and find what impels you to continue.

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#3. Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.

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#4. We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.

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#5. In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.

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#6. What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair

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#7. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

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#8. I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

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#9. And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, towards a sun which will never rise.

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#10. The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?

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

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#12. A real devil among devils.

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#13. Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

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

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#15. Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

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#16. All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.

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#17. We live forever; but they don't come back.

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#18. Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

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#19. Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

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#20. Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.

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#21. 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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#22. Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.

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#23. We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.

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#24. Drink from me and live forever.
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#25. You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.

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#26. Here's my love, not in little droplets, but from the very river of my being. It reaches all the way down to the roots of my being, tangling my heart in its burning mesh. For you. Drink deep.

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#27. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

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

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#29. One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

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#30. He stood in the doorway, holding the back of his own arms. And I knew what I felt. It was a monstrous intimacy with another being, an intimacy that made even the rapt moments of life seem dim and under control. Never, never in all my existance had I been threateened with an intimacy quite like this.

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#31. 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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#32. The waiter had set down the hot drinks, and the steam did feel glorious. The piano played Satie ever so softly. Life was almost worth living, even for a son of a bitch of a monster like myself.

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#33. Maybe we do go home, finally.

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#34. I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.

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