Interview With the Vampire
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Armand
- The world changes, we do not; therein lies the irony that finally kills us. -to Louis
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Claudia
- One lesson you taught me. Never drink from the dead. -to Lestat
- I'll put you in your coffin! -to Lestat
- Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal to you. You gave me your immortal kiss you became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. -to Louis
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Lestat
- Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all. -to Louis
- All I ever need to find you is to follow the corpses of rats. -to Louis
- Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had. -to Louis
- Claudia, you've been a very, very naughty little girl. -to Claudia
- Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him, as ourselves. -to Louis
- You feel, it don't you? You feel it like no other creature because you are a vampire. -to Louis
- Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt! -to Louis
- Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries. -to Daniel Malloy
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Louis
- Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed, and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be. -narrating to Daniel Malloy
- A little child she was, but also a fierce killer, now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding. -narrating to Daniel Malloy
- How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink" you ask me; do you have any idea of the thing you will become? -to Madeline
- But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face. -narrating to Daniel Malloy
- I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. -to Daniel Malloy
- Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life. -to Lestat
- Whatever happened to Lestat I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty. -to Daniel Malloy
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Conversation
- Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires.
Claudia: How avant-garde!
- Lestat: Listen Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
Claudia: How could it be?
Lestat: Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Been on the diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi. Slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia... You've been a very, very, naughty little girl.
- Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.
Louis: I tried.
Lestat: [smiling] And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.
- Claudia: You... fed on me.
Louis: Yes. And he found me with you, and he cut his wrist and fed you from it and you were a vampire and have been every night thereafter.
Claudia: You both did it.
Louis: I took your life... He gave you another one.
Claudia: And here it is, and I hate you both.
- Louis: Where are we?
Lestat: Where do you think, my idiot friend? We're in a nice, filthy cemetery. Does this make you happy? Is this fitting, proper enough?
Louis: We belong in Hell.
Lestat: And what if there is no Hell, or they don't want us there? Ever think of that?
Louis: But there was a Hell, and no matter where we moved to, I was in it.
- Armand: They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret.
Louis: And you can teach me this?
Armand: Yes.
Louis: To be without regret?
Armand: Yes.
Louis: Then what a pair we could make... but what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn?
Armand: What do you mean?
Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret?
Armand: Don't you want to lose it?
Louis: Why? So you can have that, too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder?
Armand: Louis, I swear that I...
Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You who regrets nothing, you who feels nothing, if that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my own... and as much as your invitation may appeal to me, I regretfully decline.
- Lestat: Absinthe. You've given them absinthe.
Claudia: No, laudanum. It killed them, unfortunately, but it keeps the blood warm.
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