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Notable "I am the Vampire Lestat" monologues: openings and closures

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Daniel Molloy on his dying bed

Disclaimer: quotes are not in order.

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Andrei, Amadeo, Armand

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Women + Vampiric Freedom

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Lestat, Louis and Armand complaining about each other's books

This is not an exhaustive list, if you find any others and are willing to share, I'd be eternally grateful ^^.

I read [Interview with the Vampire] over and over. And then in a moment of contemptible anger, I shredded it to bits. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat

As for the lies [Louis] told, the mistakes he made, well, I forgive him his excess of imagination, his bitterness, and his vanity, which was, after all, never very great - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat

"That's Louis's language," Armand said patiently. "Please don't quote that book to me" - Queen of the Damned

Interview with the Vampire, of all preposterous titles! – Lestat, The Tale of the Body Thief

"Weep. I'd like to see you weep. I've read a great deal about your weeping in the pages of your books but I've never seen you weep with my own eyes." "Ah, that makes you out to be a perfect liar," [Lestat] said furiously. "You described my weeping in your miserable memoir in a scene which we both know did not take place!" - Lestat and Louis, The Tale of the Body Thief

"I expected some long philosophical diatribe, like the trash you wrote in your memoir" – Lestat to Louis, The Tale of the Body Thief

I insulted [Louis's] writing all the time. That was a joke. Well, sort of a joke – Lestat, The Tale of the Body Thief

Louis had poured out his story, published under the absurd title Interview with the Vampire – Armand, The Vampire Armand

But it's the way [Lestat] describes things that happen to him that maddens me, the way that he connects one incident to another as though all these random and grisly occurrences were in fact links in some significant chain. They are not. They are capers. And he knows it. But he must make a gutter theatrical out of stubbing his toe - Armand, The Vampire Armand

And it was Louis’s outrageous lies about me, intentional and unintentional (some people should not be granted a poetic license) - Lestat, Blood Communion

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Louis's testament: "Behold, the void." And Lestat's history: "And this and this and this, and it means nothing." - Khayman, Queen of the Damned

She'd tried to read the Vampire Lestat's book - the whole history of Dead guys back to ancient times and all but there were just too many big words and konk, she was asleep. (...) and the first one, the one with the title she could never get straight, something like "conversations with the vampire," or "talking with the vampire," or "getting to meet the vampire," or something like that. Davis would read out loud from that one sometimes, but Baby Jenks couldn't take it in, snore! (...) the book was full of stuff about banana leaves and iron railings and Spanish moss. - Baby Jenks, Queen of the Damned

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Underrated pairing: Lestat + the little iPhone - book quote compilation

Information age. I guess I’m part of it, even if I can’t remember how to use my iPhone from week to week - Prince Lestat

I came back, flopped heavily on the sofa, and threw down my iPhone as if it were a gauntlet on the coffee table. “Take that!” – Prince Lestat

Yes, I have a safe refuge, I insisted. A good refuge. Be assured. Yes, I will use the iPhone magic to communicate. - Prince Lestat

Truth was, I lost the little iPhone. And went back to calling my attorneys in Paris and New York now as I had always done, with an old-fashioned landline phone. – Prince Lestat

I drew the phone out of my pocket. “Benji, put the little thing on speaker, will you?” I slapped it down on the table. – Prince Lestat

I took the glass cell phone from Thorne, and put it to my ear which always felt absurd and never would feel natural, but there was no getting out of it - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

The little phone suddenly vibrated in my pocket as if it were a tiny rodent come awake to plead for mercy. - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

I removed my iPhone from my pocket. I had come to hate it more than ever since Amel had figured how to use it. – Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

And I gave the little slab of a glass phone back to Gregory, who tucked it away in his ancient robes. - Blood communion

This is not an exhaustive list, if you have any others you find interesting and are willing to share, I’d be eternally grateful ^^.

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Lestat + Fits of Laughter - book quote compilation

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Disclaimer: this is a non-exhaustive list, if you have any other quote you love and are willing to share I'll be enternally grateful ^^

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Stars + lack of meaning in TVC - Book quote compilation for Vamptember 2025

"I don't like the stars," Rice admits. "They frighten me. Stars are a reminder of horrible things. They look beautiful but they have to do with the vastness and mystery of the universe. To Lestat, they signify the indifference of the Savage Garden where only aesthetics seem to matter: things are beautiful but nobody cares what you feel." - The Vampire Companion

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars. - Louis, Interview with the Vampire

I couldn't stand seeing [the stars]. I couldn't stand seeing the pure emptiness, the silence, the absolute absence of any answer - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat

I looked up at the heartless little stars, such mean guardians, and I prayed to the dark gods who don't exist to understand. - Lestat, The Tale of the Body Thief

But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one. – Pandora, Pandora

What stars are these that sing so beautifully when all the world is languishing in dissonance? - Marius, The Vampire Armand

The pulsing night sang to me of the nothingness. The stars spread out to prove the horror of our universe - Lestat, Blood Canticle

It’s the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word. - Lestat, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Disclaimer: This is a non-exhaustive list. If you have any others that you wish to share, I'd be eternally grateful ^^