“In the winter of my twenty-first year, I went out alone on horseback to kill a pack of wolves.This was on my father’s land in the Auvergne in France, and these were the last decades before the French Revolution.” – The Vampire Lestat
//Sooo on my very stressful and not fun at all vacation I re-read Interview and TVL. I started QotD as well, but only got as far as Jesse’s introduction. Out of the series so far QotD remains my favorite. It’s masterfully put together, with each chapter/section the perfect length, all the while building proper suspense. It does perfectly what PL failed at, which is what disappoints me more about PL than any plot point.
As I read I highlighted passages [*pets my Kindle*] I found interesting/enlightening, especially since I’ve read all the VC books now and have 20/20 hindsight. Putting this under a read-more to save your dash.
Louis: W-wait you’re not Lestat *pulls away*
Armand: (thinking) Keep absolutely still. His vision is based on movement.
I’ve watched two-year-old humans with interest for centuries. They’re miserable. They rush about, fall down, and scream almost constantly. They hate being human! They know already that it’s some sort of dirty trick.
You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night killing alley cats and rats and staring for hours at candles as if they were people and standing in the rain like a zombie until your clothes are drenched and you smell like old wardrobe trunks in attics and have the look of a baffled idiot at the zoo.
Louis de Pointe du Lac, as described by Lestat (via merciful-death)
TRUE WUV
Omg it’s never a bother to get a message like this! I’m so so so glad that one little click cheered you up a little *u*
Absolutely bless Lestat’s magnificence, ABSOLUTELY.
SHUT UP CLAUDIA WE ALL WANT TO HEAR IT
“I am The Vampire Lestat. I’m immortal. More or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire — these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”
#4th line in on his first book he’s talking about self-destruction #Ah yes this is where I have laid my affections.
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
❝People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.❞ —Interview with the Vampire
//Sooo on my very stressful and not fun at all vacation I re-read Interview and TVL. I started QotD as well, but only got as far as Jesse’s introduction. Out of the series so far QotD remains my favorite. It’s masterfully put together, with each chapter/section the perfect length, all the while building proper suspense. It does perfectly what PL failed at, which is what disappoints me more about PL than any plot point.
As I read I highlighted passages [*pets my Kindle*] I found interesting/enlightening, especially since I’ve read all the VC books now and have 20/20 hindsight. Putting this under a read-more to save your dash.
“Hell is hatred, people living together in eternal hatred. We’re not in hell.” – Claudia
I love No Exit by Sartre, and this line reminds me so much of it. Just a line I adore, with so much truth.
“I was vaguely horrified at the thought of having an accent to my French, but this wasn’t my immediate concern.” – Louis
*pets Louis* That is all.
“ ‘Ah, but to cover up such curls,’ said Celeste, now playing with Claudia’s golden hair. And I realized what must have been obvious: that all of them had dyed their hair black, but for Armand…” – Louis
Hair dying Vampires is possible! We have canon proof. Look forward to Rose having oddly dyed ombre hair or something weird like pastel purple or pink.
“ ‘I want to burn the doll shop!’” – Madeleine
Obviously Louis’ fledgling.
“What would Christ need have done to make me follow Him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.” -Louis
Louis love for Lestat makes me want to cry.
“I felt inexpressible love for these men and women. They explained to me how each actor had his role for life, and how they did not use memorized words, but improvised everything on stage. You knew your name, your character, and you understood him and made him speak and act as you thought he should. That was the genius of it.” – Lestat
This reminds me so much of RPing. Rose and Seth are my main canon chars, but they’re my first in 13 years of RPing. I’m far more accustomed to OCs. No matter what you RP, this captures the essence of it to me.
“I’ll never know. I’ll never know what it is like to be human in any way, shape, or form again.” – Lestat
Oh, how young and naive you were Lestat.
“She didn’t even look disheveled so much as she looked impossible, a woman torn out of time and place, clad only in slippers and dress, no chains on her, free to soar.” – Lestat about Gabrielle
I wish we had more canon first-person VC chars. This quote makes me want a book written by Gabrielle, or Bianca, or ANY OF THEM. Yes, we have snippets in the anthology books, and Pandora, but Merrick was really David’s tale.
“ ‘You know the creatures of the night are ripe for a great leader,’ she said. ‘Not some superstitious mumbler of old rites, but a great dark monarch who will galvanize us according to new principles.’” – Gabrielle
I don’t think when Gabrielle said this, she had any inkling this leader would become her son.
“ ‘The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.’” – Marius
Do I blame this misogyny on Marius or on Anne?
It felt great to re-read these books. I’ve probably read IWTV 7 times and each time I discover new things. I’ve only read TVL once before. QotD I’ve read a few times, though now that I’m home I’ll probably go through it a little slower.
On an pure OOC note, my vaca was terrible except for how tan I am now. My arms and legs are 5 shades darker than they were, though I’m all sore from sunburn. Ah well, I brought it upon myself.
Thanks for sticking through this too long post!
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