Emma’s Reviews > The Vampire Lestat > Status Update

“And I had always loved him, hadn’t I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat?”

THE LORD BROUGHT OUR FAMILY BACK TOGETHER!!!

Nicki dead, Armand unmentioned for the last 200 pages, Louis not even in the picture yet.. oh but we get five more chapters of Marius… Lestat boy I know you hear New Orleans calling for you

“I was praying as I had when I was very very little and I would lie in the meadow on the side of the mountain and ask God please please to help me get away from my father’s house.”

to think Louis could’ve had this quest for knowledge too if only LESTAT hadn’t been such a BUM

“I thought, I am glad Nicki took his hands with him into the fire, because if he had not, I would have to go back to Paris and get them before I could go on.”

“I’d see… a human being who looked perfect to me spiritually—and I would follow the human about. …I’d fall in love with the being. I’d imagine friendship, conversation, intimacy that we could never have. In some magical and imaginary moment I would say: ‘But you see what I am,’ and this human being, in supreme spiritual understanding, would say: ‘Yes, I see. I understand.’”