Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Armand: The world changes, we do not, there lies the irony that finally kills us.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires.
Claudia: How avant-garde.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Claudia: Who will take care of me, my love, my dark angel, when you are gone?

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

[to Malloy]
Lestat: I assume I need no introduction.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Armand: They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret.
Louis: And you can teach me this?
Armand: Yes.
Louis: To be without regret?
Armand: Yes.
Louis: Then what a pair we could make, but what if it's a lesson I

don't care to learn?
Armand: What do you mean?
Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret?
Armand: Don't you want to lose it?
Louis: Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder.
Armand: Louis, I swear that I...

Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You, who regrets nothing, you, who feels nothing. If that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my own.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: 1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be

released from it. I wanted to lose it all... my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted it.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Claudia: Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
Claudia: How can it be?
Lestat: Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on a 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.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.
Louis: I tried.
Lestat: [smiling] And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Claudia: Where's mama?
Lestat: Mama... mama has gone to heaven, Chérie, like that sweet lady right there. They all go to heaven.
Louis: All but us.
Lestat: Shh. Do you want to frighten our little daughter?
Claudia: I'm not your daughter.
Lestat: Oh, yes, you

are. You're mine and Louis' daughter now. You see, Louis was going to leave us, he was going to go away, but now he's not. Now, he's going to stay and make you happy.
Claudia: Louis.
Louis: You fiend.
Lestat: One happy family.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: Do you think I would let them harm you?
Claudia: No, you would not, Louis. Danger holds you to me.
Louis: Love holds you to me.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: The trick is not to think about it. See that one there? Widow St. Clair. She had the gorgeous young fop murder her husband.
Louis: How do you know?
Lestat: Read her thoughts.
[Louis looks at him inquisitively]
Lestat: *Read* her thoughts.
Louis: [attempts to read her

thoughts] I can't.
Lestat: The dark gift is different for each of us. But one thing is true for us all, we grow stronger as we go along. Just take my word for it. She blamed a slave for his murder. Imagine what they did to him. Evildoers are easier, and they taste better.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Claudia: Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Claudia: You... fed on me.
Louis: Yes. And he found me with you, and he cut his wrist and fed you from it, and you were a vampire and have been every night thereafter.
Claudia: You both did it.
Louis: [crying] I took your life... He gave you another one.
Claudia: And here it is, and I

hate you both.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

[last lines]
Lestat: Don't be afraid... I'm going to give you the choice I never had.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: Bear me no ill will, my love, we are now even.
Claudia: What do you mean?
Louis: What died in that room was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human.
Claudia: Yes, Father. At last we are even.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: Her blood coursed through my veins, sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: 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.