Lestat Vampire 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.

Anne Rice

#2. The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Anne Rice

#3. Pamper the mad man.

Anne Rice

#4. An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.

Anne Rice

#5. I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Anne Rice

#6. 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.

Anne Rice

#7. You are the pure embodiment of madness.

Anne Rice

#8. 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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#10. 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.

Anne Rice

#11. The Coven of the Articulate - A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles - particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.

Anne Rice

#12. Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Anne Rice

#13. A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#15. It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

Anne Rice

#16. I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing ... not even this mortal body ... is going to defeat me.

Anne Rice

#17. I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Nosferatu,' and Coppola's 'Dracula' with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.

Catherine Hardwicke

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#21. 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.

Anne Rice

#22. 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

Anne Rice

#23. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Anne Rice

#24. I stumble through a carnival of horrors

Anne Rice

#25. Malady of mortality

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#27. 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.

Anne Rice

#28. 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.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#30. 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 then again, they might not.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

#32. Oh, I think we should name your penis the Vampire Lestat.

Darynda Jones

#33. I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

Anne Rice

#34. I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Anne Rice

#35. You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

Anne Rice

#36. Maybe we do go home, finally.

Anne Rice

#37. Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall
-The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice

#38. I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Anne Rice

#39. I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Anne Rice

#40. I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.

Holly Black