"Life has no meaning anymore, does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no meaning for any of it, does there?
But what if I could give it back to you? Pluck out the pain and give you another life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. And sickness and death could never touch you again.
Don't be afraid, I'm going to give you the choice I never had."
~Lestat's offer to Louis, IwtV-the movie
"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we.
For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."
~Lestat's explaining to Louis, IwtV-the movie
"I can't help being a gorgeous fiend, it's just the card I drew"
~Lestat's logic, QotD
"I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
~Lestat to Louis, the end of QotD
"I swear to God I don't tell lies to others. But I lie to myself."
~Lestat's being honest, QotD
"Judge me not for my stupidity"
~Lestat to Louis, TotBT
"I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself."
~Lestat, MtD
"Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the
passion that in one way or another defeats us all."
~Lestat, TVL
"Hell is hatred, people living together in eternal hatred. We are not in Hell."
~Lestat, TVL
"None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are."
~Lestat, QotD
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!"
~Louis, IwtV(?)
"Do you hear what I'm saying to you? You haven't learned anything, have you? You're more incorrigible than you were before!"
~Louis to Lestat, end of QotD
"You're a perfect devil, Lestat! That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"
~Louis to Lestat, end of QotD
"You weren't human when you were alive! You were born a monster, and you know it!"
~Louis to Lestat, TotBT
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I have never seen a vision or learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
~Armand to Louis, IwtV-the movie
"Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you."
~Armand to David, TVA
"A singer can chatter a glass with the proper high note...But the simplest way for anyone to break it is simply to drop it on the floor."
~Marius to Lestat, TVL
"Disaster, my son"
~Gabrielle to Lestat, after he has turned Nicki into a vampire, TVL
"If I waste this bitch, to use the vernacular, do I waste the rest of us too?"
~Gabrielle about Akasha, QotD
"Only the impossible can do the impossible"
~Nicki to Lestat, TVL
"You're mad, you've always been mad! Get out of this house! You'll drive us all crazy."
~Augustin to Lestat when Lestat asks him if he believes
in God and how he can live if he doesn't, TVL
"Lestat is a monster. I love him, but he's a monster."
~Anne Rice
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
"It's sugar with your coffee. It's strawberry ice cream. It's chocolate."
~Ancient Evelyn about the love to another woman, Lasher
"Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time."
~Mona about the difference between men and women, Lasher
"He made love to me just as if I were a woman."
~Richard Llewellyn about Julien, Witching Hour
"My darling, my baby, my Emaleth. I'll take her down. I'll put her in the earth myself."
~Rowan, end of Lasher
"Oh, stop reading my mind! Don't be a Mayfair bitch, be a Mayfair witch"
~Mona to Mary Jane, Taltos