Lestat Quotes

Lestat Quote of the day

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

Malady of mortality

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Maybe we do go home, finally.

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

I’d like to meet the devil some night, ’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.