Holly Black Quotes

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

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.

Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.

You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.