"‘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 over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion…"

—Louis about Lestat - Interview With The Vampire (Book)

"The rage in me grew stronger, ever more dangerous. Was Louis somewhere near in these very streets? I clenched my fists, struggling against this rage, struggling against its helpless and inevitable expression.

Marius, you turned your back on me. That came as no surprise, really. You were always the teacher, the parent, the high priest. I don’t despise you for it. But Louis! My Louis, I could never deny you anything, and you turned me away!"

—Lestat de Lioncourt - The Tale of the Body Thief 

"I went deeper and deeper in with Lestat’s remains, though why, I did not know. And finally, when I could barely see the pale space of the road and the sky which was coming dangerously close to dawn, I let his body slip down out of my arms into the water. I stood there shaken, looking at the amorphous form of the white sheet beneath the slimy surface. The numbness which had protected me since the carriage left the Rue Royale threatened to lift and leave me flayed suddenly, staring, thinking: This is Lestat. This is all of transformation and mystery, dead, gone into eternal darkness. I felt a pull suddenly, as if some force were urging me to go down with him, to descend into the dark water and never come back. It was so distinct and so strong that it made the articulation of voices seem only a murmur by comparison. It spoke without language, saying, `You know what you must do. Come down into the darkness. Let it all go away.‘"

—Louis about Lestat’s “death”, Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

"`Now listen to me, Louis,’ he said, and 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. I recoiled. But he put his right arm around me and pulled me close to his chest. Never had I been this close to him before, and in the dim light I could see the magnificent radiance of his eye and the unnatural mask of his skin."

—Louis de Ponte du Lac about Lestat, Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

"Rules, rules, rules. They always wind up talking about rules. And I love to break the rules the way mortals like to smash their crystal glasses after a toast against the bricks of the fireplace."

—Lestat de Lioncourt - The Tale Of The Body Thief

"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world."

—Lestat de Lioncourt - The Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)

"Maybe that’s what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up."

—Memnoch The Devil (Anne Rice)