Not all love is gentle. Sometimes it’s gritty and dirty and possessive, sometimes it’s not supposed to be careful or soft at all. Sometimes it feels like teeth.
Quotes
Brad Pitt was really successfull as Louis, because Brat Pitt hated the movie and hated everybody.
Anne Rice (via violcetta)
You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise, there is no hope.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat (via muirin007)
So if you read this, read it for that reason that Lestat is talking again, that he is frightened, that he is searching desperately for the lesson and for the song and for the raison d’etre, that he wants to understand his own story and he wants you to understand it, and that it is the very best story he has right now to tell. If that’s not enough, read something else.
If it is, then read on. In chains, to my friend and my scribe, I dictated these words. Come with me. Just listen to me. Don’t leave me alone.
Lestat de Lioncourt, Memnoch the Devil.
I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.
I am alone, I was thinking. I am alone. It seemed just, perfectly, and so to have a pleasing, inevitable form. And I pictured myself then forever alone, as if on gaining that vampire strength the night of my death I had left Lestat and never looked back from him and anyone else. As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms.’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, pg. 264 (via merciful-death)
(via cloudsinvenice)
I still like to think Louis invented the best French fries when he burned down all the Theatre vampires.
THEY WERE FRENCH AND FRIED WHAT MORE DO U WANT
But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I’ll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
oh, I just can’t waaaait to be kiiiing!
Macbeth, Act I scene iii (via incorrectshakespearequotes)
– also Lestat de Lioncourt, Prince Lestat
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