Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

by Anne Rice

he lay down beside me now on the steps, his movement so graceful and so personal that at once it made me think of a lover.

,,,and they were lovers

I remember that the movement of his lips raised the hair all over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion.…”

louis just tell him he’s pretty you doofus

‘You’ll have to bed down with me this morning. I haven’t prepared you a coffin.’

🥺👉👈 what if we shared a coffin for the day? haha jkjk,,,unless?

As you can see, my face is very white and has a smooth, highly reflective surface, rather like that of polished marble.”

marble looking vampires...where else have i seen that?

‘And how is this evil achieved?’ he asked. ‘How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the mob tribunal of the Revolution or the most cruel of the Roman emperors? Does one merely have to miss Mass on Sunday, or bite down on the Communion Host? Or steal a loaf of bread … or sleep with a neighbor’s wife?’ “ ‘No.…’ I shook my head. ‘No.’ “ ‘But if evil is without gradation, and it does exist, this state of evil, then only one sin is needed. Isn’t that what you are saying? That God exists and.…’ “ ‘I don’t know if God exists,’ I said. ‘And for all I do know … He doesn’t exist.’ “ ‘Then no sin matters,’ he said. ‘No sin achieves evil.’ “ ‘That’s not true. Because if God doesn’t exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually … it doesn’t matter. Because if God does not exist, this life … every second of it … is all we have.’

no queer undertones here sir. not the implication that one’s identity or “appetites” might be seen as damnable by themselves and/or others (and could manifest as internalized hatred). not the suggestion that every life is sacred because we only have the one and the real evil is killing others (which has been how “blasphemous behaviors” have been punished by the Church).