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

by Anne Rice

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

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

“She broke her gaze and looked up at me. ‘I ask you … how do we appear? Do you think us beautiful, magical, our white skin, our fierce eyes?

To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form!’