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"I alone put the fear of God into the servants or tenants by the time I was eighteen. I alone provided the food for us. And for some strange reason this gave me satisfaction. I don't know why, but I liked to sit at the table and reflect that everyone there was eating what I had provided."

- Lestat in The Vampire Lestat

Oh, no. Oh, no. I am going to imprint on Lestat. Help. Why is he so eldest daughter coded? Why do I feel kinship to him? Oh, I am not going to survive this book with my sanity intact.

sizeofyoursoul

"What an unusual name, Lestat," she returned. "Does it have a meaning?" "None whatsoever, Madam," Lestat answered. "If memory serves me right, and it does less and less, the name's compounded of the first letter of each of my six older brothers' names, all of whom--the brothers and their names--I grew up to cheerfully and vigorously despise."

Lestat on the origin of his first name, Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice

writing-slanted

“But don’t you see, the color of wine in a crystal glass can be spiritual,” I continued. “The look in a face, the music of a violin. A Paris theater can be infused with the spiritual for all its solidity. There’s nothing in it that hasn’t been shaped by the power of those who possessed spiritual visions of what it could be.” -Lestat Anne Rice- The Vampire Lestat

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“All the more reason for me to bring the book and the band called The Vampire Lestat to fame as quickly as possible. I had to find Louis. I had to talk to him. In fact, after reading his account of things, I ached for him, ached for his romantic illusions, and even his physical presence, the deceptively soft sound of his voice. Of course I hated him for the lies he told about me. But the love was far greater than the hate. He had shared the dark and romantic years of the nineteenth century with me, he was my companion as no other immortal had ever been.”

-Lestat de Lioncourt, The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

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'To be godless is probably the first step to innocence,' he said, 'to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.'

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

desertfangs

In honor of Lestat's birthday, I think we should share some of our favorite quotes and Lestat-isms. It's hard to choose but here's one that always makes me emotional and lives rent free free in my head:

"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end."

Lestat de Lioncourt, The Tale of the Body Thief

What's your favorite Lestat quote?

desertfangs

In honor of Lestat's birthday, I think we should share some of our favorite quotes and Lestat-isms. It's hard to choose but here's one that always makes me emotional and lives rent free free in my head:

"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end."

Lestat de Lioncourt, The Tale of the Body Thief

What's your favorite Lestat quote?

ladypaperwriterson

At the door, I turned and kissed Gabrielle again. I felt her body collapse against me for an instant; then her attention locked on Akasha. I felt the faint tremor in her hands as she touched my face. I looked at Louis, my seemingly fragile Louis with his seemingly invincible composure; and at Armand, the urchin with the angel’s face. Finally those you love are simply... those you love.

Lestat de Lioncourt, The Queen of the Damned