“Now, understand, I don’t really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero- that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.”
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“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they’re the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“What a thing to say at your age,” she laughed.

“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope-that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”

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“I felt from the first moment I saw people identifying as “Goth” that what they wanted was romance and beauty, and that they associated with the 19th century and with vampires; I think they craved that, and found their lives rather sterile. They started appearing at my signings in the 1980s wearing beautiful Victorian clothes, old lace, fangs, and white makeup. I think it was born out of a desire to have something beautiful and immutable in their lives. I was delighted!”
“I’m Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.”
— The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice, 1985 (via lestatsweetheart)

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Lestat de Lioncourt. Anne Rice wrote the greatest series of novels with The Vampire Chronicles and created this beautiful creature. He was the ultimate storyteller. Such elegant language. Language that was lost in the last book. I wish Mrs. Rice would continue the series. Because I think all fans believe the Brat Prince’s story isn’t over yet. 

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