faceofabotticelliangel:

❀: Ten favorite quotes by the character

OOOK THIS ISONNA BE LONG AND REALLY THERE’S LIKE 100000000 OTHER QUOTES I LOVE BY HIM BUT HERE WE GO:

“Oh, that’s me, eternally young. You speak nonsense words for one so pretty yourself.”

“Oh, I know. Everyone would ravage a guilty cunning child! Everyone would have a laughing boy who knows his way around the block. Kids make better food than women, and girls are all too much like women, but young boys? They’re not like men, are they? ”

“We can’t stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men who though they had renounced all else for Christ’s sake, nevertheless came together in congregations to be with one another, even as they enforced upon themselves the harsh rules of single solitary cells and unbroken silence. They couldn’t bear to be alone. We are too much men and women; we are not yet formed in the image of the creator, and what can we of him with any certainty except that he, whoever he may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—he made us, did he not, because even he in his infinite perfection could not bear to be alone.”

“Hurt me and I’ll destroy you. I don’t care how strong you are, or what blood Lestat gave you. I know more than you do. because I show you my pain, I do not by necessity love you.”

“Oh, little stars, how much I’ve hated you, and envied you that in the ghastly void you can with such determination plot your dogged course.”

“All things change except the vampire himself; everything except the vampire is subject to constant corruption and distortion. Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value. One evening a vampire rises and realizes what he has feared perhaps for decades, that he simply wants no more of life at any cost. That whatever style or fashion or shape of existence made immortality attractive to him has been swept off the face of the earth. and nothing remains to offer freedom from despair except the act of killing. and that vampire goes out to die. No one will find his remains. No one will know where he has gone. And often no one around him-should he still seek the company of other vampires—no one will know that he is in despair. He will have ceased long ago to speak- of himself or of anything. He will vanish.”

“Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”

“There’s a distinction in being murdered. I was murdered. oh, not by Marius, as you might think, but by others. ”

“Once again, I retreated into my deepest mental hiding place. ”

“You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colors.”

bonus:

“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”

Some of these are actually very applicable advice on life. Such as:

“Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value.”

One must be flexible and be willing to change with the times. *nodding sagely*