Lestat Do you still want death? Or have you tasted it enough?
More lines from Lestat
15 quotes Lestat Lestat Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.
Lestat Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all.
Lestat All I ever need to find you is to follow the corpses of rats.
Lestat Pain is terrible for you. You feel it like no other creature because you are a vampire.
Lestat Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are; none so like him as ourselves.
Lestat [After dancing with a rotting corpse]
There's still life in the old lady yet! Louis! [laughing] Come back! You are what you are! Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt.
Lestat Claudia ... you've been a very, very naughty little girl.
Lestat Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!
Lestat Have you said your goodbyes to the light?
Lestat Evildoers are easier... and they taste better.
Lestat [After stuffing a prostitute into a coffin and shutting it]
It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.
Lestat I assume I need no introduction.
Lestat [Appears in doorway of Louis comforting Claudia, found in house with the body of her plague victim mother, laughing]
My philosopher, my martyr. "Never take a human life". Oh, yes. This calls for a celebration. [Picks up the body of Claudia's mother and dances with it energetically across room singing in Italian and Louis runs out out door] There's still life in the old lady yet! [Drops body of Claudia's mother on floor, walks out door calling to Louis] Come back! You are what you are! Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.
Lestat [Walks in when Claudia has finished feeding off her tailoress and drops her on the ground]
Claudia. Claudia! Now... who will we get to finish your dress?! You need to practice daily! [Slaps Claudia's wrist] Never feed in our home!
Scenes with Lestat
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Where are we?
Lestat Where do you think, my idiot friend? We're in a nice, filthy cemetery. Does this make you happy? Is this fitting, proper enough?
We belong in Hell.
Lestat And what if there is no Hell, or they don't want us there? Ever think of that?
But there was a Hell, and no matter where we moved to, I was in it.
Lestat More melancholy nonsense. I swear, you grow more and more like Louis each day. Soon you'll be eating rats!
Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis?
It was a long, long time ago, before you were born. [playfully slurps] And I don't recommend them.
Lestat I thought you could use one more.
Why always on this night?
Lestat What do you mean?
You always give me a doll on the same night of the year.
Lestat Oh? I didn't realize.
Is this my birthday? You dress me like a doll. You make my hair like a doll. Why?
Lestat (trying to change the subject): Some of these, Claudia, are so old ... tattered. You should throw them away.
I will, then!
Lestat [Claudia begins removing the dolls from her bed, revealing the naked corpse of a woman lying underneath.]
Claudia? Claudia? Claudia! What have you done?
What you told me to do!
Leave a corpse here to rot?
I wanted her! I wanted to be her!
Lestat [Claudia pushes past Louis and exits the room]
She's mad!
Claudia.
Lestat Pollutes the very house we live in!
Do you want me to be a doll forever?!
Why not? Can't I change, like everybody else?!
[Proceeds to cut off her hair then runs into her bedroom. Seconds later Claudia's screams are heard from within her room. Louis busts in to find Claudia in front of the mirror with a full head of curls]
Which one of you did it?! [pushes past Louis and confronts Lestat] Which one of you made me the way I am?!
Lestat What you are? A vampire gone insane, that pollutes its own bed?
And if I cut my hair again!
Lestat It will grow back again.
But it wasn't always so. I had a mother once. And Louis, he had a wife. He was mortal, the same was she. And so was I!
Claudia!
You made us what we are! Didn't you?
Lestat Stop her, Louis!
Did you do it to me?
[Claudia cuts Lestat's cheeks with the scissors. Lestat looks at Claudia stunned]
How did you do it?
Lestat And why should I tell you? It's in my power.
Why yours alone? Tell me how it was done!
Lestat Be glad I made you what you are.
Lestat [Lestat jumps out of the chair he had been sitting in and grabs Claudia by the throat]
You'd be dead now if I hadn't. Liked that damned corpse. Now get rid of it!
You get rid of it!
[She drops the scissors, then storms out]
Lestat Absinthe. You've given them absinthe.
No, laudanum. It killed them, unfortunately, but it keeps the blood warm.
Lestat Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
How could it be?
Lestat Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on the diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi, slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia ... you've been a very, very naughty little girl.
Lestat No one could resist me. Not even you, Louis.
I tried.
Lestat (smiling): And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.
Lestat [Lestat catches Louis killing the poodles of his victim; a wealthy plantation owner woman instead of her, then breaks her neck and scolds Louis.] [Angrily]
You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night feeding on... rats and poodles! You could have finished us both!
Lestat I don't know any hell.
Lestat [Crashes through window of ablaze plantation master house]
Perfect! Perfect! Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! Have us living out in a field, like cattle!
Lestat Oh, shut up, Louis! [Grabs Louis by shirt and forces him up] Come on! [Slaves cheer and dance at sight of ablaze plantation master house]
Prostitute 1
[Lestat is pinning down a prostitute on a couch with her legs around him]
Your skin is icy.
Lestat [Turning his attention to Prostitute 2]
Your friend has no head for wine.
Prostitute 2
Don't worry. I can warm that cold skin of yours better than she can.
Lestat Do you think so?
Prostitute 2
Why... you're warm now! But the price is high.
Lestat Your pretty friend, I exhausted her. [Caressing prostitute's cheek] Soft. So soft. I can see you lying on a bed of satin.
Prostitute 2
Such things you say.
Lestat Do you know what manner of bed? Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once I've put out thy light... I cannot... give it vital breath again. Its needs must wither. [Bites prostitute's wrist, pours it out in glass and holds out the glass to Louis] For you, Louis. You can pretend it's wine.
She's not dead!
Lestat You're in love with your mortal nature. You resist what can bring you peace.
You call this peace?!
Lestat We're predators, whose all-seeing eyes give them detachment!
The girl, Lestat!
Lestat Take her! End that hunger!
No!
Lestat Now, my child. You're tired, you want to sleep! [Swipes coffin lid off and picks up prostitute 2 and dumps her in]
Prostitute 2
It's a coffin! A coffin! Let me out! [Lestat slides coffin lid shut] I'm not dead! [Lestat leaps to sit on coffin and knocks at coffin's head]
Lestat It's your coffin my love, enjoy it! Most of us never get to know what it feels like!
Why do you do this?
Lestat I like to do it! I enjoy it! Take your aesthete's taste to purer things! Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! For do not doubt you are a killer, Louis! [Flips coffin lid off and kneels down] What's that?!
Prostitute 2
It's a coffin!
Lestat So it is! You must be dead!
Prostitute 2
I'm not dead, am I?
You're not dead.
Lestat Not yet.
Lestat You finish it!
Prostitute 2
Save me from him! Save me! You'll let me go? I can't die like this! I need a priest!
Lestat My friend is a priest. He'll hear your sins before you die. Unless... I make her one of us.
No!
Lestat Then take her, Louis. End her suffering! End yours!
No.
Lestat [Grabs the prostitute and drinks her remaining blood]
Now... are you happy?
My God! To think you... are all I have to learn from.
Lestat In the Old World.... they called it the "dark gift." And I gave it to you.
