interview with the vampire (book-based) sentence starters & prompts.
assorted quotes from the 1976 book interview with the vampire by anne rice. mature content and language may be used, feel free to adjust as necessary.
“every moment must be first known and then savored.”
“i lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
“i love you still, that's the torment of it.”
“the measure of my hatred is that love. they are the same! do you know now how much i hate you!”
“don't be a fool for the devil, darling.”
“let the flesh instruct the mind.”
“that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and i.”
“who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us?”
“do you know what it means to be loved by death?”
“do you know what it means to have death know your name?”
“you are the night, and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms.”
“for what can the damned really have to say to the damned?”
“what does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?”
“i never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly i am the cause of it.”
“evil is a point of view.”
“evil is always possible. and goodness is eternally difficult.”
“you reflect your age differently. you reflect its broken heart.”
“one doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.”
“i was feeling fear. not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.”
“you are in love with your mortal nature! you chase after the phantoms of your former self.”
“the only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
“but the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues.”
“your fall from grace and faith has been the fall of a century.”
“for what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us?”
“your body's dying, pay no attention.”
“kill them swiftly if you will, but do it!”
“learn that you’re a killer!”
“because all aesthetic decisions are moral, really.”
“i’ve more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know.”
