Save your kisses for the world, little one.
- Magnus to Lestat before going into the fire.
Stichwörter: farewells
The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.
This is no unusual configuration among our kind-the sad old building, my title to it, or the cellar room cut off from the world above by iron doors no mortal could independently seek to lift.
Stichwörter: secret vampires mortal vampire coffin iron cellar
I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.
Wait a second.
Do you know who I am?
Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw me out of your backpack. Pitch me in the airport trash bin. Leave me on a bench in Central Park!
What do I care?
No. I don't want you to do all that. Don't do that.
DON'T DO IT!
I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.
Anne RiceStichwörter: fear vampire louis interwiew-with-the-vampire
...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.
Anne RiceStichwörter: happiness sad paris anne-rice louis interview-with-the-vampire
i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.
Anne RiceBecause no one could in any guise convince me of what I myself knew to be true, that I was damned in my own mind and soul.
Anne RiceWhat mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.
Anne RiceStichwörter: love hate human mysteries emotions vampire claudia parade-s-end
The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.
Anne RiceStichwörter: power claudia vampire-chronicles louis beauty-and-the-beast
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