"“Come home with me,” he said. Such a human voice. So kind. “There’s time to come here and reflect. Wouldn’t you rather be home, in the Quarter, amongst our things?”
If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing—with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously with a confidential calm from what he must have feared for me, and for him, and perhaps for all of us.
My old familiar gentleman friend, my tender enduring pupil, educated as truly by Victorian ways of courtesy as ever by me in the ways of being a monster."
—At the end of
Memnoch the Devil (via
rueroyale)
"Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there’s nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don’t know the trick. It’s like whistling or singing."
—Lestat de Lioncourt (Memnoch - Anne Rice)
"I wanted his blood. I feed on the blood of others. That’s how I stay youthful and alive. Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth."
—Lestat de Lioncourt (Memnoch - Anne Rice)
"He has a sleeping mind in his heart and an insatiable personality."
"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)
"We have souls, you and I. We want to know things; we share the same earth, rich and verdant and fraught with perils. We don’t either of us know what it means to die, no matter what we might say to the contrary."
—Lestat in Memnoch The Devil (book)
“He has a sleepless mind in his heart, and an insatiable personality.”
My Anne Rice book collection
"Uma mente insone no seu coração e uma personalidade insaciável."
—O vampiro Lestat de Lioncourt sobre Memnoch (“Memnoch”, quinto livro das Crônicas Vampirescas)
"He has a sleepless mind in his heart, and an insatiable personality."
—The vampire Lestat de Lioncourt about Memnoch (Memnoch The Devil, five book of Vampire Chronicles)
