The Vampire Lestat Quotes

“I stumble through a carnival of horrors”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don’t need the darkness.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“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, The Vampire Lestat

“All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Pamper the mad man.”
― Anne Rice

“It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“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, The Vampire Lestat

“Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as to why we were ever alive. Even the avowed atheist probably thinks that in death he'll get some answer. I mean God will be there, or there won't be anything at all.

'But that's just it,' I said, 'we don't make any discovery at that moment! We merely stop! We pass into nonexistence without ever knowing a thing.' I saw the universe, a vision of the sun, the planets, the stars, black night going on forever. And I began to laugh.

'Do you realize that! We'll never know why the hell any of it happened, not even when it's over!' I shouted at Nicolas, who was sitting back on the bed, nodding and drinking his wine out of a flagon. 'We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witness to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You are the pure embodiment of madness.”
― Anne Rice

“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, The Vampire Lestat

“An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.”
― Anne Rice

“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.

I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“As he stood there, watching me, watching me examine him, I asked him sharply: "Am I beautiful to you?" The expression on his face grew even darker. Never have I seen him the way he looked. A scorching heat came into his face, and it seemed he blinked to clear his vision. His perfect vision. He left me and went out of the room. I went after him. In truth, I couldn't bear to see him the way he was, yet I pursued him. "Am i beautiful to you?" He stared at me as if I frightened him. I held tight to his arm. "Answer me! Look at me! What do you see?" He was in a dreadful state. I thought he'd pull away, laugh, flash his usual brimming colours. But instead he dropped to his knees before me and took hold of both my arms. He kissed me roughly on the mouth. "I love you," he whispered. As if it were a curse he laid on me, and then he spoke this to me: "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I’m theatrical and incorrigible. A regular beast when it comes to the exaggerated and the eccentric.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“You seek a family, always and everywhere.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“I don’t play by anybody’s rules but my own.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“She was too distracted by the alluring creature standing before her table, with his cordial blue eyes.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“You know in this day and age a rock musician can wear a frock coat if he wishes, and so I indulge myself.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“Perhaps he had worked a vague charm, and she was giving forth her deepest thoughts.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“He looked rather radiant in his rapture with her, and she was beaming back.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“I devour it and then I lose it and sometims I can’t reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but th knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm