theheadgirl:
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him.
And I had always loved him, hadn’t I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat?
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
Stupidly I stared at him. How perfect he seemed to me as he stood there waiting with such kindness and such patience. And then, like a fool, I came out with it.
“Do you love me now?” I asked.
He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. “Yes,” he said.
Prince Lestat (2014)
I kissed him. I pressed my lips to his and I held this kiss for a long silent moment. And then I gave in to a silent wave of feeling, and I took him in my arms. I held him tight against me. I felt his unmistakable silken skin, his soft shining black hair. I heard the blood throbbing in him, and time dissolved, and it seemed I was in some old and secret place, some warm tropical grotto we’d once shared, ours alone in some way, with the scent of sweet olive blossoms and the whisper of moist breeze. “I love you,” I whispered.
In a low intimate voice, he answered: “My heart is yours.”
louis + lestat. die young. love forever.
"It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face."
"I had a dream about you…I dreamed that we were moving through the world together, you and I, and we were both serene and strong. I dreamed we fed on the evildoer…and as we looked about ourselves we felt awe and sorrow at the mysteries we beheld. But we were strong. We would go on forever. And we talked. Our conversation went on and on."
"For one moment I thought of my beloved Louis. No doubt he was in his crumbling little house in its deep swampy garden in New Orleans, reading by the light of the moon as he always did, or giving in to one shuddering candle should the night be cloudy and dark."
—Lestat - The Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)
"Lestat embraced his companion Louis, and they kissed on the mouth, as the mortal musicians put their arms around both of them."
—Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)
"And then, like a fool, I came out with it.
“Do you love me now?” I asked.
He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled.
“Yes,“ he said."
—Lestat - Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)
"`Now, I’m getting into the coffin,’ he finally said to me in his most disdainful tone, `and you will get in on top of me if you know what’s good for you.’ And I did. I lay face-down on him, utterly confused by my absence of dread and filled with a distaste for being so close to him, handsome and intriguing though he was."
—Louis - Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
"I begged Lestat to let me stay in the closet, but he laughed, astonished. `Don’t you know what you are?’ he asked. `But is it magical? Must it have this shape?’ I pleaded. Only to hear him
laugh again."
—Louis - Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
economiadelpensamiento:
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Dionysus in San Francisco, 1985
I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
—The Vampire Lestat - The Vampire Chronicles
"He thought of Lestat again, confident, smiling, wearing the mantle of power as easily as he had always worn his finery, old and new.
He said under his breath:
“Beloved maker, beloved Prince, I will be with you soon.”"
—Louis - Prince Lestat (Anne Rice)
