Lestat Quotes

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

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

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.

You're the mad one,' I said. 'If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music - which of course you play for yourself - you wouldn't see darkness, Nicki. You'd see an illumination that is all your own. Sombre, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns.

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

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

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