Anne Rice Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs.

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

You can not kill that which is already dead.

You can't trust a vampire, trust me

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

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

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.

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

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

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

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

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

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

It's cool to play a vampire.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

Vampires are people too!

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.