Queen of the Damned quotes

View Quote Lestat: Boo. That was quite a preformance. You should learn to be more careful. So, you know Marius?
Jessie: I know a lot of things.
Lestat: Not how to stay alive, apparently.
Jessie: O, I guess we have that in common, though I think I'm a little ahead of the race, here.
Lestat: Well, I can fix that.
Jessie: Your song "Redeemer" is about the girl with the violin?
Lestat: Yes. And what else do you think you know?
Jessie: You want...
Lestat: What do I want?
Jessie: You yearn...
Lestat: What do I yearn... what do I yearn...
Jessie: To walk with the living... out of the cold dark waste land of eternity.
Lestat: Very good, Talamascan. I knew I left that journal somewhere.

View Quote We are the powerful, we are the immortal! We should walk fearless in the open!

View Quote From that moment on, they were my friends, my children, my band. Giving the world a new god... me.

View Quote Many times since then I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless precession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

View Quote It was hard to believe these beings were mortal -- so confident in their skin. Everything in my body wanted to be with them. I couldn't help myself.

View Quote The question provoked an irresistible urge...I am the vampire Lestat. It just rolled out of my mouth. With one simple sentence I had betrayed everything about my kind. Betrayed our code of secrecy.

View Quote After calling one stone tomb home sweet home for so long, I like to experience as much diversity as I can. Wouldn't you?

View Quote Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends with my words. Daring them to come out.

View Quote I impressed my maker with my thirst for things. He set out to educate me in the unknown. Taught me all about the world, its hidden history... and about myself

View Quote Humanity? (snort) We're murderers.

View Quote My senses run amok, like a newborn child. And as for my new powers,I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all...

View Quote But why must we hide, Marius? We are the powerful, we are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open

View Quote The faces of my victims haunted me, rising behind my eyes, reminding me of my fate... I played for days trying to expel the last bit of my human feelings... and face the cold, dark wasteland of eternity...

View Quote Well, Talamascan, you're certainly a very clever librarian, aren't you?

View Quote How sad, you people always trying to know the unknowable... So, was it a good read? My diary.