#vampire scripture

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I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)

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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

Bonus:

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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Joe Manganiello surprises Anne

I'm always posting about you on the Facebook page - Anne Rice I grew up reading your books - Joe Manganiello

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Art in the subterranean room of the Théâtre des Vampires

It was the terrible ‘Triumph of Death’ by Breughel, painted on such a massive scale that all the multitude of ghastly figures towered over us in the gloom. Those ruthless skeletons ferrying the helpless dead in a fetid moat or pulling a cart of human skulls,

beheading an outstretched corpse or hanging humans from the gallows.

A bell tolled over the endless hell of scorched and smoking land, towards which great armies of men came with the hideous, mindless march of soldiers to a massacre.

I turned away, but the auburn-haired one touched my hand and led me further along the wall to see ‘The Fall of the Angels’ slowly materializing, with the damned being driven from the celestial heights into a lurid chaos of feasting monsters (...) above to the very height of the mural, where I could make out of the shadows two beautiful angels with trumpets to their lips. And for a second the spell was broken.

The candle rose. And horrors rose all around me: the dumbly passive and degraded damned of Bosch, the bloated, coffined corpses of Traini, the monstrous horsemen of Dürer

The very ceiling writhed with skeletons and moldering dead, with demons and the instruments of pain, as if this were the cathedral of death itself. - Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice, in the Vampire Companion:

I was very interested in the Northern European artists at that time - Brueguel, Dürer, Bosch - painters who I felt were absolutely grotesque in many regards.

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Vampires dressing each other in TVC - book quote compilation

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

Claudia, Louis and Lestat

An endless train of dressmakers and shoemakers and tailors came to our at to outfit Claudia in the best of children’s fashions, so that she was always a vision, not just of child beauty, with her curling lashes and her glorious yellow hair (...) Lestat played with her as if she were a magnicent doll, and I played with her as if she were a magnicent doll - Interview with the Vampire

Louis and Lestat

[Louis] was outfitted entirely in the new clothes I’d ordered for him (...). “This is what you wanted, isn’t it?” [Louis] asked. Nothing mocking or mean in the tone. Shocked. Unable to respond. “Well, I figured you could use some new clothes, that you always can.” I was stammering, clinging to a shred of dignity, trivializing the moment with ridiculous words. “A whole room full of clothes?” he asked. “Lestat, the century will be ended before I can wear all that.” – Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Louis sat in a chair nearby, quietly resplendent in his Lestat-chosen clothes. – Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Louis and Armand

[Louis] wore his favorite old dark coat, a little threadbare but so comfortable, and his favorite old fannel trousers and a fine white shirt Armand had forced upon him with buttons of pearl and outrageous lace. - Prince Lestat

Gabrielle and Lestat

I helped to peel off the old taffeta and to dress [Gabrielle] up in pink velvet, gathering her hair in tidy curls under an ostrich-plume hat. - The Vampire Lestat

Daniel and Armand

Armand would push [Daniel] into the shower, soap him all over, rinse him off, (...) and finally dress him after carefully selecting from Daniel's wardrobe of dirty and neglected clothes. || At sunset when Daniel awoke, his clothes had already been laid out for him. Heaven help him if he were to change a single item, from the linen handkerchief to the black silk socks. - Queen of the Damned

Armand and Lestat

"That's what you always want," [Armand] said softly (...)."When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvet with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." - Memnoch the Devil

Armand and Marius

I was combed, trimmed and dressed in the colors [Marius] would forever choose for me, sky blue for the stockings, a darker midnight blue velvet for a short belted jacket, and a tunic of an even fairer shade of azure embroidered with tiny French fleur-de-lis in thick gold thread. A bit of burgundy there might be for trimming and fur - The Vampire Armand

Benji and Armand

I in turn have the supreme pleasure of carrying Benji about like a doll and getting him to wear all the Western finery I purchase, at least now and then, for an hour or two - The Vampire Armand

Bonus:

"One thing, Louis, " [Lestat] said. "Yes? " "Those clothes. Impossible." - The Vampire Lestat

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Armand + visualizing colors

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

Just give me color, pure orange, and just for a second, as he died-as the death passed me by, like a big rolling ball of black strength which turns out to be nothing actually - Armand, The Vampire Armand

My Father set down all but one egg. (...) "There, there, pure yoke, Andrei." He sighed, and then threw the broken shell on the floor. He picked up the small pitcher and poured the water into the yoke. "You mix it, mix your colors and work." - The Vampire Armand

[Marius] pulled the scarlet bed curtains. The light made them transparent. Red and red and red. It was his color, he told me, as blue was to be mine. - Armand, The Vampire Armand

I closed my eyes shut, gritted my teeth and decided that each blow was the divine color red and that I liked, and that the hot crashing pain I felt was red, and that the warmth swelling up in my leg after was golden and sweet. - Armand, The Vampire Armand

I began to see brilliant colors when I killed. In fact, I could sometimes see these colors dancing around my victims before I ever even closed in. Some men seem to walk in red-tinged shadows, and others to emanate a fiery orange light. The anger of my meanest and most tenacious victims was often a brilliant yellow which blinded me, searing me, as it were, both when I first attacked and while I drank the victim dry of all blood. - Armand, The Vampire Armand

As for the visions, and these colors you speak of, seek to learn from them. (...) Yes, savor them. Devour them slowly as you do his blood. As for the colors, let them pervade you. Let the entire experience inundate you. - Marius to Armand, The Vampire Armand

My scalded skin was a part from me, and not a part of me. (...) I rolled over on my back, luxuriating in the splashy red and yellow pain that bathed me, and I opened my eyes. - Armand, The Vampire Armand

No, that could not happen! I writhed and twisted. The pain sent its shocks through me, red and violet and pulsing with orange light. - Armand, The Vampire Armand

"Armand confided to me, about the colors he saw when he took life, how the soul left body in waves of radiating color!” “I’ve never heard of such a thing!” - David and Pandora, Pandora

Amadeo recovered nothing of his memory. He could not paint, he could not touch the brushes. It was as if the colors, when raw, burnt his eyes. – Marius, Blood and Gold

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Why did Lestat become a Rock star?

Rice - Vampire Companion

"Lestat," says Rice, "is the bloodthirsty, wolf-killing, violent person who aspires to be something infinitely good and can't be". Lestat also becomes a rock star, partly because he wants to spread vampire lore through his songs in order to inspire mortals to eradicate vampires and partly because he loves to play to an audience: "I could feel the attention as if it were an embrace." He equates actors and musicians with saints, so the medium of rock music seems to him to be the perfect way to do good with his evil nature. - The Vampire Companion

Lestat feels Louis distorted what happened, and did not really know the whole story. He tells his side to set the record straight, to show how much more there is to being a vampire than Louis was able to convey - The Vampire Companion

The Vampire Lestat

Yes, I wanted to get closer to it. I wanted to do it. Maybe make the little unknown band of Satan's Night Out famous. I was ready to come up. - The Vampire Lestat

I told them that I wanted to sing with them, that if they were to trust to me, we would all be rich and famous. That on a wave of preternatural and remorseless ambition, I should carry them out of these rooms and into the great world. - The Vampire Lestat

Regardless, for what (Louis)'d done, others would surely hunt him down. And there are very simple ways to destroy vampires, especially now. If he was still in existence, he was an outcast and lived in a danger from our kind that no mortal could ever pose. All the more reason far me to bring the book and the band called The Vampire Lestat to fame as quickly as possible. (...) And I ached to write my story for him, not an answer to his malice in Interview with the Vampire, but the tale of all the things I'd seen and learned before I came to him, the story I could not tell him before. - The Vampire Lestat

And I wanted my band and my book to draw out not only Louis but all the 12 other demons that I had ever known and loved. I wanted to find my lost ones, awaken those who slept as I had slept. - The Vampire Lestat

But there was another reason for the whole adventure-a reason even more dangerous and delicious and mad. And I knew Louis would understand. It must have been behind his interview, his confessions. I wanted mortals to know about us. (...) We would be known, and we would be hunted, and we would be fought in this glittering urban wilderness as no mythic monster has ever been fought by man before. How could I not love it, the mere idea of it? - The Vampire Lestat

But to tell the truth, I didn't think it would ever come to that-I mean, mortals believing in us. Mortals have never made me afraid. It was the other war that was going to happen, the one in which we'd all come together, or they would all come to fight me. That was the real reason for The Vampire Lestat. That was the kind of game I was playing. But that other lovely possibility of real revelation and disaster - The Vampire Lestat

But I am going on the stage. I am going to be Lelio again the way I never was in Paris. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, an outcast, a freak of nature-something loved, something despised, all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss it. - The Vampire Lestat

"Louis, I mean for something and everything to happen, " I said. "I mean for all that we have been to change! What are we but leeches now-loathsome, secretive, without justification. The old romance is gone. So let us take on a new meaning. I crave the bright lights as I crave blood. I crave the divine visibility. I crave war - The Vampire Lestat

I'd realized it for the first time when the Porsche exploded with Louis still inside it. This little war of mine would put all those I loved in danger. What a fool I'd been to think I could draw the venom to myself. - The Vampire Lestat

2. Following books

As I've said, I wrote the book and made the album because I wanted to be visible, to be seen for what I am, even if only in symbolic terms. - Queen of the Damned

And how wondrous this age was, and how I'd become a rock star for a brief time, because I thought that as a symbol of evil I'd do some good. (...) But she must understand, exquisite nun that she was, how much I'd wanted as the rock singer to do good.- The Tale of the Body Thief

I was suddenly furious. “It was for me that I did it!” I said. “All right. I admit it. It was a disaster, but it was for me that I did it. There was no ‘us.’ I didn’t want the human race to wipe us out, that was a lie, I admit it. I wanted to see what would happen, who would show up for that rock concert. I wanted to find all those I’d lost … Louis, and Gabrielle, and Armand and Marius, maybe Marius most of all. That’s why I did it. Okay. I was alone! I didn’t have any grand reason! I admit it. And so goddamned what!” - Prince Lestat

And it was Louis’s outrageous lies about me, intentional and unintentional (some people should not be granted a poetic license) that prompted me to write my own autobiography and tell the secrets of Marius to the whole world.- Lestat, Blood Communion

And as I prepared for my one and only rock concert in San Francisco in the year 1984, I did dream of an immense battle, an apocalyptic confrontation to which elder blood drinkers would be awakened and drawn irresistibly, and young ones incited with fury, and the mortal world committed to stamping out our evil once and for all. Well, nothing came of that ambition. Nothing at all - Blood Communion

Visibility, significance, recognition! All that I’d ever wanted when I took to the rock music stage, all that I’d ever wanted as a boy heading to Paris with a head full of dreams, all I’d ever wanted I now had right here with my brothers and sisters! - Blood Communion

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