Top 79 Quotes About Lestat

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

Anne Rice

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#2. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Anne Rice

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. I stumble through a carnival of horrors

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#7. Malady of mortality

Anne Rice

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#8. 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?

Anne Rice

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#9. 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.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#11. Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt

Anne Rice

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#12. 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

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#13. You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.

Anne Rice

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#14. I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.

Anne Rice

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#15. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#17. I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#19. 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

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#20. Lestat, what did I say last night?' he asked. 'You are the damnedest creature!

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#22. 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.

Anne Rice

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#23. 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

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#24. But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.

Anne Rice

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

Darynda Jones

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

Anne Rice

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#27. It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#30. Save your kisses for the world, little one.
- Magnus to Lestat before going into the fire.

Anne Rice

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#31. 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.

Anne Rice

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#32. Maybe we do go home, finally.

Anne Rice

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#33. You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!

Anne Rice

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#34. 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

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#35. Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

Anne Rice

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#36. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#38. 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

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#39. 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

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#40. 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?

Anne Rice

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#41. There was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

Anne Rice

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#42. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.

Anne Rice

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#43. I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

Anne Rice

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#44. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#46. Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#48. 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

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#49. Pamper the mad man.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#51. The trip back from Pointe du Lac was thrilling. And the constant chatter of Lestat was positively the most boring and disheartening thing I experienced. Of course as I said, I was far from being his equal.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#53. Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse.
By the time I reached the castle gates; I think I was not Lestat. I was someone else altogether.

Anne Rice

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#54. I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

Anne Rice

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#55. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#57. You are the pure embodiment of madness.

Anne Rice

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#58. 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.

Anne Rice

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#59. 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

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#60. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#62. 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

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#63. 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

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#64. Kindly go to Hell!
(Lestat to Oncle Julien's ghost)

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#66. 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

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

Anne Rice

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#68. A real devil among devils.

Anne Rice

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#69. My father who art in hell, Lestat be your name.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#72. She said further that this Geneva blood drinker was tragically in love with Lestat.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#74. My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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#76. 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

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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