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

by Anne Rice

My desire to die was constant, like

‘He was going to go away. But now he’s not. Because he wants to stay and take care of you and make you happy.’ He looked at me. ‘You’re not going, are you, Louis?’

Baby trapped him

And I, transformed by Lestat’s instruction, was now to seek out humans in much greater numbers.

Seems like youre the boss of you but okay

“I would let the first hours of the evening accumulate in quiet, as hunger accumulated in me, till the drive grew almost too strong, so that I might give myself to it all the more completely, blindly.

He thinks he is so much better but instead of feeding in a managable way he waits till he loses control

It was not as if Lestat had taken her full from life as he had taken me; I had stricken her. She would have died! There would have been no mortal life for her.

OH MY GOD TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY

‘He made me then … to be your companion.

‘The vampire made a slave of him, and he would no more be a slave than I would be a slave, and so he killed him. Killed him before he knew what he might know, and then in panic made a slave of you. And you’ve been his slave.’

Hell of conclusion to jump to

‘And why not kill him!’ she said now, her voice rising, silvery and finally shrill. ‘I have no use for him! I can get nothing from him! And he causes me pain, which I will not abide!’

Tantrum baby

‘And I hope it’s a beautiful woman with endowments you’ll never possess,’

Quite a low blow

‘I’ll put you in your coffin, Father,’ she said, as though she were soothing him. ‘I’ll put you in it forever.’ And then, from beneath the pillows of the couch, she drew a kitchen knife.

I didn’t answer him at once, because during these moments I had seen the puncture wounds in his neck. Two red scratch-like marks to the right, just above his soiled collar.

Did lestat have a secret family!?!?!?!

Well, I couldn’t help but go up. I don’t suppose anything could have kept me away;

Mind your buisness!

‘They said she went out to it,’

Should have listened

I didn’t even take time for my robe.

🤨

‘The ruins,’ she said. ‘It was always the ruins.

New favorite phrase

Yes …’ I said to her. ‘Out there. I would prefer that. Out there.’

Yeah probably time to get a move on

“But it seemed an eternity that I just sat there feeling her lips on my face and on my eyelids. Then she moved, the softness of her small body suddenly snatched from me, in a movement so graceful and swift that she seemed now poised in the air beside the carriage,

GROSS please someone kill louis

‘It’s too still.’

I hope that it is lestat!

“I held fast to Claudia, ready in an instant to shove her behind me,

Please shove her in front of you I am over her

I was battling a mindless, animated corpse. But no more.

zombie vampire?

“In a moment I was hammering on the door of the inn. As it opened, I put my hood up around my face tightly and held Claudia beneath my cape in a bundle. ‘Your village is rid of the vampire!’

Why are we coming back to the inn?!

“ ‘Drink,’ she whispered, drawing nearer. ‘Drink.’ And she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me.

I thought you were not able to drink dead peoples blood.

I wanted him alive! In the dark nights of eastern Europe, Lestat was the only vampire I’d found.

probably shouldn't have tried to kill him twice then huh?

Why could I not do what Lestat had done with both of us? Why could I not make another vampire?

He literally told you you couldn't do it and you chose not to listen

Are you sure you haven’t fathered a league of monsters who, from time to time, struggled vainly and instinctively to follow in your footsteps? What was their life span, these orphans you left behind you—a day there, a week here, before the sun burnt them to ashes or some mortal victim cut them down?’

Claudia knows exactly how to get to louis