"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)

"O que importa é aquele sentimento que tenho dentro de mim - embora não com frequência, admito, e sim de vez em quando. Sei que é um bom sentimento para ser cultivado. E, além disso, acontece a todo mundo ou a quase todos. Está ali, perto de nós e todos nós sabemos. Pare de usar essa metralhadora! Pare de perseguir seja a quem for que esteja perseguindo! Acalme-se, respire normalmente, deixe que um pouco de paz se infiltre em seus ossos. Não adianta. Você não deseja isto. Continuará a ocupar-se com as malditas frioleiras de sempre."

—George Bowling em “Um Pouco de Ar, Por Favor!” - George Orwell

"

I am in love with you", I responded.

He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.

“Of course you are,” he replied. “I understand perfectly because I’m in love with myself. The fact that I’m not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.

"

—Lestat and Quinn Blackwood - Blackwood Farm (Anne Rice)

"

Don’t be fanatical in your dedication to reason,“ I said.

These words both shocked and offended him.

"Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions!”

He was silenced.

“If you so cling to reason,” I said, “then in the passage of time reason may fail you, and when it does you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.

"

—Pandora to Marius - “Pandora” [Anne Rice]

"‘May she wake in torment!’ he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. 'Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not perished - where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’"

—Heathcliff about Cathy’s death - Wuthering Heights

"‘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)

"`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)