Queen of the Damned Quotes

Akasha Just the same, I'd like you to kill her.

Jesse Boo.

Akasha My children... it warms my blood to see you all gathered, plotting against me.

Lestat Many times since then I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless precession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

Akasha Come, my love. We have a score to settle.

Lestat There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable. Living in the shadows, feeding in the darkness with only your own company to keep, rots into a solitary, hollow existence. Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you're going to spend it alone. So I went to sleep, hoping that the sounds of the passing eras would fade out, and a sort of death might happen. But as I lay there, the world didn't sound like the place I had left, but something different. Better. It became worthwhile to rise again as new gods were born and worshipped. Night and day, they were never alone. I would become one of them. Whether it was that first meal, or a hundred years of rest, I'm not sure. But suddenly I was feeling better than ever. My senses so high they led me straight to the instrument of my resurrection, playing in my old house.

Lestat Well, I can fix that.

Lestat This may be painful for a mortal. You're still attached to your skin.

Lestat But why must we hide, Marius? We are the powerful, we are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open!

Lestat Clever librarian.

Akasha I'd like for you to kill her.

Akasha We live everywhere and anywhere we choose. The world is our garden.

Lestat Such reverence for mortals! Then you should have left me as one!

Akasha Join me or die!

Marius She takes pleasure in only one thing: destroying life.

Lestat Come, let me show you what it means to live in the light.

Akasha I know that you crave to have the world at your feet. And I have come to give it to you.

Marius Appreciate your prey.

Akasha You still dare to challenge me, Maharet?

Akasha They believed in nothing, now they are nothing. But you and I will change all that. We will give the world something to believe in.

Lestat The faces of my victims haunted me, reminding me of my fate... For nights and nights I played, furious. Never again I would participate in the simple joys of life. I was meant for more than this.

Lestat From that moment on, they were my friends, my children, my band. Giving the world a new god... me.

Lestat Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends. Daring them to come out.

Lestat My senses run amok, like a newborn child. And as for my new powers, I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all...

Lestat How did you manage to slip through the 50's in red velvet?

Marius I slept.

Lestat You didn't miss much.

Marius ...].

Lestat Elvis, yes.

Akasha You kill me, you kill yourselves.

Lestat I impressed my maker with my thirst for things. He set out to educate me in the unknown. Taught me all about the world, its hidden history... and about myself

Lestat The question provoked an irresistible urge...I am the vampire Lestat. It just rolled out of my mouth. With one simple sentence I had betrayed everything about my kind. Betrayed our code of secrecy.

Akasha See my children, remember your real family, or join hers.

Lestat But I never understood until I met you.

Jessie What do you mean?

Lestat You’re beautiful to me because you’re human. Your frailty, your short years, your heart; even as you think it’s breaking. All that seems suddenly more precious than anything I’ve ever known.

Jessie Not as precious as you think.

Lestat Come out, come out, wherever you are.