Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

"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.

You can not kill that which is already dead.

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!

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

He would make a lovely corpse.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

We will never conquer death.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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.

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.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Death is the beginning of something.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.