Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Quotes

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[first lines] Louis: So you want me to tell you the story of my life?

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Daniel Molloy: What did you see? Louis: No words can describe it. May as well ask Heaven what it sees; no human can know.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Perfect! Just perfect! Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! Have us sleeping in the field like cattle! Louis: You thought you could have it all... Lestat: Oh, shut up, Louis! Mon Dieu! Come here.

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Lestat: I'm going to give you the choice I never had.

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Lestat: Do we forgive each other then?

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like. Louis: Why do you do this? Lestat: I like to do it. I enjoy it. Take your aesthete's taste to purer things, kill them swiftly, if you will, but do it. For d...

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Daniel Molloy: So there are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula? Louis: Fictions, my friend. The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman.

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Lestat: Come to New Orleans, then. The Paris Opera's in town. We can try some French cuisine. Louis: Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for mortal life.

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Louis: But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: I walked all night, I walked as I had walked years before when my mind swam with guilt at the thought of killing. I had thought of all the things I had done, and couldn't undo. And I longed for a moment's peace.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: We kept to ourselves, pondering the mystery of each other.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

[watching a nude prostitute] Lestat: Now that is pure Creole. Trust Claudia to have found her. What, don't you want her? Claudia: I want to be her.

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Daniel Molloy: So a vampire can cry. Louis: Once, maybe twice in his own eternity. Maybe it was to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge on them.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Whining coward of a vampire that prowls the night killing rats and poodles; you could have finished us both. Louis: You've condemned me to Hell. Lestat: I don't know any Hell.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: [dancing around with the corpse of Claudia's mother] There's still life in the old lady yet.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles