The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It�s about something that happened to me.
Dreams can be as real as events. Or so it seemed to me.
I had been transformed into a dark god of sorts, thanks to suffering and triumph
I could move into the air at will� I could effect or destroy matter with the power of my mind. kindle a fire by the mere wish to do so�
Not bad, you might think. I loathed it.
I�m not a pragmatist, understand. I have a keen and merciless conscience.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style
There are very few sure ways to kill the undead. And, after all, we are talking about the Vampire Lestat here.
There will be no revelations from ancient times or old ones confiding half thruths and riddles and promising answers that do not, in fact, exist and have never existed.
No, I have done all that before.
I lust after such killers!
Where are my nameless saints? Where are the angels with their feathered wings to carry me down into hell? What do I know of heaven?
But it caused no pain. Or let us say it did not cause enough pain.
What if I make you one of us? I could do it, you know�
Why would anyone want me to live?
"You don�t have to take life to do it, do you? "
" I like to take life "
I look like an angel, but I�m not.
Imagine a perfect God allowing the Devil to come into existance. No, that�s simply never made sense.
The entire flaw in the Bible is the notion that God is perfect.
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense that a perfect God.
"You search for God."
"The hell I do."
"This is a pledge?"
"on my honor a s a bloodthirsty murderer, yes. "
Of all of us survivors, he is the most nearly human. And he remains so by choice.
(To Lestat) You weren�t human when you were alive! You were born a monster, and you know it!
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