{"quotes":[{"text":"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["acting","actors","actresses","anne-rice","create","creative","lestat-de-lioncourt","magic","stage","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat","theater"],"id":1527,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["lestat-de-lioncourt","vampire"],"id":8374,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anger","anne-rice","armand","hate","lestat","lestat-de-lioncourt","loneliness","power","vampires"],"id":60460,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...A most impressive piece of young male flesh.Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?David: A woman you loved.Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","lestat-de-lioncourt","louis-pointe-du-lac","tales-of-the-body-thief","vampire-chronicles","vampires"],"id":90504,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","gay","kiss","lestat-de-lioncourt","romantic","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat"],"id":100300,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Maybe we do go home, finally.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["after-life","anne-rice","heaven","hope","lestat-de-lioncourt","the-queen-of-the-damned","the-vampire-chronicles","vampires"],"id":167452,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","humor","james-bond","lestat-de-lioncourt","the-queen-of-the-damned","vampires","vanity"],"id":174455,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again. Meaningless, I almost said, aloud.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["despair","lestat-de-lioncourt","lestatthevampire","meaningless","the-vampire-chronicles"],"id":202759,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"We are the things that others fear,' I said. 'Remember that.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","fear","lestat-de-lioncourt","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat","vampires"],"id":202986,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["devil","lestat-de-lioncourt"],"id":219846,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}