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viaticumforthemarquise:

‘“I want to know, for example, why beauty exists,” she said, “why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a tree and its beauty, and what connects the mere existence of the sea or a lightning storm with the feeling these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough. And I must confess that this, this maniacal curiosity or call it what you will, leads me away from my human victims. It leads me into the open countryside, away from human creation. And maybe it will lead me away from my son, who is under the spell of all things human.”’ -Gabrielle de Lioncourt, The Vampire Lestat

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whore-er:

“No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.”

“If I want to sleep all day and drink all night, I’ll do it, damn you!”

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sorry:

I read an article the other day that said, “if you drink every day you are an alcoholic.” Thank god I only drink every night

“If I want to sleep all day and drink all night, I’ll do it, damn you!”

– Lestat de Lioncourt

I love this line so much bc it works on different levels. Primarily the fact that THATS BASICALLY WHAT VAMPIRES DO. Sleep all day and drink all night. So Lestat is actually behind perfectly honest here with his dad! It’s one of Lestat’s cleverest lines EVER regardless of whether he came up with it on the spot or it’s his credo.

Here’s more text from IWTV preceding that quote, because of reasons:

“He was in his father’s bedroom meantime, telling the old man good-bye, that he would return in the morning. ‘But where do you go, why must you live by such a schedule!’ the old man demanded, and Lestat became impatient. Before this, he’d been gracious to the old man, almost to the point of sickening one, but now he became a bully. `I take care of you, don’t I? I’ve put a better roof over your head than you ever put over mine! If I want to sleep all day and drink all night, I’ll do it, damn you!’ ”

– Interview with the Vampire

the threshold to madness right here

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novelfirstlines:

“I see …” said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

— Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire (1976)

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sleptsolong2002:

Anne Rice’s confirmation, that yes, that was her review on Amazon and not someone pretending to be her. Edited minor-ly to remove out-of-date info.

“Dear Ones,

I must confess: I can not answer any more Emails sent to AnneOBrienRice@mac.com. There are nearly 200 Emails on the site right now,…

So this is a letter from AR from 2004 regarding the whole rebuttal against the bad Blood Canticle reviews drama but this needed to be highlighted:

"Post Script: If anyone wants to send back a book for refund, by all means do it. We’ll be glad to send you your refund, and we’ll put the book into the next package to be shipped to the soldiers overseas. We get plenty of letters from them. All blessings, Anne.”

I love the idea of soldiers reading Blood Canticle. For free! A returned book from an unhappy fan in the hands of someone defending our country who’s doing real violence, and reading about the Mind Gift and possibly thinking:

"Well shit that would make all this A LOT easier…”

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king-lestat:

I was gone from the New World within hours, and night after night, I wandered, hunting in the seething slums of Asia-in Bangkok and Hong Kong and Singapore-and then in the dreary and frozen city of Moscow, and in the charming old cities of Vienna and Prague. I went to Paris for a short time. I pushed my speed to the limits; I rose and plunged in the darkness, sometimes alighting in towns of which I did not know the name. I fed ceaselessly among the desperate and the vicious and, now and then, the lost and the mad and the purely innocent who fell under my gaze.