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

by Anne Rice

“I have an accent?” He began to laugh.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

“I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it. I remember the light came

I never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

“No. Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was no wonder, then, that he appreciated nothing.

‘Good night, sweet prince,’ said Lestat ‘and here’s your fifty dollars.’

My desire to die was constant, like a pure thought in the mind, devoid of emotion.