Vampire Chronicles Quotes

“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood And Gold

“The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“Pamper the mad man.”
― Anne Rice

“Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.”
― Anne Rice

“Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.
David: You're serious?
Lestat: Of course
David: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh.
Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..
David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?
Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?
David: A woman you loved.
Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.
David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.”
― Anne Rice Tale Of The Body Thief

“But death we are, and death we've always been.”
― Anne Rice

“Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.”
― Anne Rice

“I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.
"Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love.”
― Anne Rice

“Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me. "No. I know what to do; haven't I done it in the past?" I said to her.”
― Anne Rice

“Malady of mortality”
― Anne Rice

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“He can see us," said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.”
― Anne Rice

“What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay you to forget your better judgment?”
― Lestat de Lioncourt

“She was no longer shaken. If she remembered her screams in the fire she did not care to dwell on them. If she remembered that, before the fire, she had wept real tears in my arms, it made no change in her; she was, as always in the past, a person of little indecision, a person for who habitual quiet did not mean anxiety of regret.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Can you picture it?’ she said so softly I scarcely heard. ‘A coven of children? That is all I could provide…”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I saw her shimmering face for an instant; she came towards me; I thought this is death again, this is death coming, the woods and the wolves coming, and no place to hide, and then my eyes closed.”
― Anne Rice, On the Road to the Vampire Lestat

“They had ventured out into the chilly night with the sole intention of slaughtering as many humans as they could find and feasting on their blood. There had been a time (perhaps after he had killed his fiftieth victim) when he had thought he had finally acquired the state. The rush was unprecedented; the euphoria engulfed him as he and Jo shattered the dreams of the innocent. They cackled like hyenas as their blood-mania rendered them bestial.”
― Asher Sharol, Vampires of Twilight Castle

“El vasto cielo estaba cubierto de nubes y luego nos abrimos paso hasta las mismísimas estrellas.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“Em sua busca por uma ressignificação do mal fora do Cristianismo, Lestat não tenta, entretanto, posicionar-se como sendo necessariamente o oposto dele. Afinal, como afirma Rice, ainda que Lestat “seja um símbolo de formas de liberdade e domínio, eu nunca perco de vista o mal que tem em si”. Esse mal em si, todavia, não o limita ou tampouco o define; ele é reconhecido, aceito e passa a integrar um mosaico complexo que compõe a identidade em transfiguração do “vampiro deste tempo”.”
― Thiago Sardenberg

“Disposto a morrer para ter sua história contada e sua natureza reconhecida, Lestat, como “vampiro deste tempo” que é, dialoga com a atitude dos novos tempos para os quais acordou, em que o Outro é menos excluído por sua diferença que, na verdade, celebrado por ela.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O VAMPIRO À SOMBRA DO MAL

“De um lado, temos a figura do vampiro pré-riceano como a própria personificação de um Outro que é estrangeiro, alheio à nós, aos nossos costumes e valores e que, consequentemente, era construído como perigoso, antagônico, maléfico. Do outro, temos Lestat, que já se viu nesses mesmos lugares e obstinou-se a reconstruir-se para além deles.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O Vampiro à Sombra do Mal: A Fluidez do Lugar da Figura Mítica na Literatura

“Enquanto Stoker via seus vampiros como manifestações do proibido e do profano, Rice explorou-os como formas de lidar com sua realidade, com conflitos que lhes eram particulares; ela, que sempre se viu refletida na figura do outsider, sentiu-se confortável ao lidar com figuras que tentavam encontrar um significado para si fora da normatividade. Louis e Lestat, tão diferentes, carregam em si um pouco do fantasma da culpa católica e do desejo por ruptura e liberdade – sentimentos conflituosos, mas presentes simultaneamente em Rice.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O Vampiro à Sombra do Mal: A Fluidez do Lugar da Figura Mítica na Literatura

“We obviously have a problem."
"Give me a stake and I'll solve it."
She snorted and sipped at her mug, her lips coming back a slightly deeper shade of red. "Just try it. I dare ya.”
― E.H. Drake, Blood Herring: Keep your enemies closer...