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‘I was a Creole who wanted to see where it had all began.’

‘the precision of the clock, in a room as vast as the universe’

‘I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other’

‘What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?’

‘The thing lay still.’

‘this horror that had been Lestat, and I staring helplessly at it.’

‘this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant; just a word or two of amiable feeling on my part, some suggestion that I found his companionship pleasant, could banish all such affairs for months.’

‘I thought of what I always felt when I heard him coming, a vague anxiety, a vague need.’

“What’s the matter with her?” he flared at me, as though I’d given birth to her and must know.’


mother.

‘He could persuade me to kill a child, but not to part with my money.’

‘God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately’

‘You… alone… under the rising moon… can strike like that hand of god!’

‘You cannot, as a man, go back to the nursery and play with your toys, asking for the love and care to be showered on you again simply because you now know their worth.’

‘Louis! You are in love with your mortal nature! You chase after the phantoms of your former self.’

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

to others:

‘even floods and thunder were the weapons of God in a personal battle waged with Louis and Lestat.‘

‘Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself.’

he belittled me and attacked me for my love of the senses, my reluctance to kill, and the near swoon which killing could produce in me.

‘it sounds as if it was like being in love.’
The vampires eyes gleamed. ‘That’s correct. It is like love,’ he smiled.

‘before I died, Lestat was absolutely the most overwhelming experience I’d ever had.’

‘I begged Lestat to let me stay in the closet, but he laughed, astonished.
“Don’t you know what you are?”

"Listen, keep your eyes wide," Lestat whispered to me, his lips moving against my neck. 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...’

now why is this considered gay ‘subtext’???

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

‘Knowing Lestat as I do now, I would say he would have killed me rather than let me go. But this was what I wanted, you see. It didn’t matter.’

‘my desire to be thoroughly damned’