“Ah,” I said smiling still, and kissing his shoulder.
“I hurt you!” he said.
“No, no, not at all, sweet Master,” I answered. “But I hurt you! I have you, now!”
“Amadeo, you play the devil.”
“Don’t you want me to, Master? Didn’t you like it? You took my blood and it made you my slave!”
He laughed.Marius and Amadeo, TVA
”(…) “No, for your blood,” I said, pushing him backwards against the slender but frm trunk of a tree.
“You damnable brat,” he seethed.
“Oh, yes, despise me, please,” I said as I closed in. I pushed his face to one side, kissing his throat frst, and then sinking my fangs very slowly, my tongue ready for those frst radiant drops.”
Lestat and David, “Prince Lestat”
[reciting] I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine…
vampiresarechildrenofthenight:
I’m ‘Gentleman Death’ in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.
This room has been trashed in proper rockstar fashion. Except, rockstars don’t usually leave dead groupies behind. Usually.
We live in a world of accidents finally, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky-such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.
“Sometime during the night he died… His pencil was lying on the coverlet, and there was a piece of paper – the flyleaf of his precious book – crumpled under his right hand.
Gently, she closed his eyes, and kissed his forehead. He’d written something on the piece of paper. She lifted his cold, stiff fingers and removed the paper and read the few words he’d scrawled in his uneven spidery hand:
IN THE JUNGLES – WALKING.
What could it mean?”
– the Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
I don’t remember anything about how she felt about movie!IWTV’s ending, but yeah, there was a whole thing about the Cruise casting, and she certainly changed her tune.
AR’s actual words re: Tom here: http://www.angelfire.com/ri/cerat/AnneOnTom.html
She went from:
“The Tom Criuse casting is just so bizarre, it’s almost impossible to imagine how it’s going to work, and it’s really almost impossible to imagine how Neil, David and Tom could have come up with it. I have one question: Does Tom Criuse have any idea of what he’s getting into? I’m not sure he does. I’m not sure he’s read any of the books other than the first one, and his comments on TV that he wanted to do something scary and he loved “creature features” as a kid, well, that didn’t make me feel any better. I do think Tom Cruise is a fine actor. [But] you have to know what you can do and what you can’t do.“
– an interview with Martha Frankel, published in Movieline (Jan/Feb 1994)
To:
“ON TOM CRUISE: From the moment he appeared Tom was Lestat for me. He has the immense physical and moral presence; he was defiant and yet never without conscience; he was beautiful beyond description yet compelled to do cruel things. The sheer beauty of Tom was dazzling, but the polish of his acting, his flawless plunge into the Lestat persona, his ability to speak rather boldly poetic lines, and speak them with seeming ease and conviction were exhilarating and uplifting. The guy is great.
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